Top 100 Quotes About Stale
#1. Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks.
David Berkowitz
#2. Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
Jerry Garcia
#3. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#4. Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb's bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room's ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents of stale piss.
David H. Millar
#5. You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
Barry Mann
#6. A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
Ben Lovett
#8. Yet hopefully things are different now, and I'm moving on to something better rather than attempting to suck more out of the same stale situation.
Doug Cooper
#9. Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
Ellen Glasgow
#10. I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.
Andy Gibb
#11. You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.
Les Claypool
#12. The same energy not allowed to move becomes stagnant, stale, creates sadness
Rajneesh
#13. O the stale old dogs who pretend to guard
the morals of the masses,
how smelly they make the great back-yard
wetting after everyone that passes.
D.H. Lawrence
#14. No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.
Esther Dyson
#15. I would swear that I could practically hear crickets in the ensuing silence, if not for the fact that the stale air probably kills anything that requires oxygen to breathe.
T.T. Escurel
#16. Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.
Maureen Connolly
#17. Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.
Isak Dinesen
#18. Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value.
Shri Radhe Maa
#19. You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by fear none of that will matter. You will remain tied to dead ideas and stale strategies. You will not be able to adapt. You will lose what you have.
Robert Greene
#20. Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood.
David Berkowitz
#21. Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.
Osbert Sitwell
#22. Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#23. I sat up and my mouth tasted horrible, like stale pot, beer and Cheetos. The exact combination of ingredients that had caused me to pass into unconsciousness on Natalie's floor.
Augusten Burroughs
#24. I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!
Jonathan Raban
#25. Their marriage was cold and tedious. Formal and unloving. Stale even. She never had any regrets like this with Jack. With Jack, a rainy day would be cheerful.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#26. The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.
Clive Barker
#27. President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.
Rob Portman
#28. Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
H. Rap Brown
#29. I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
Dean Koontz
#30. That the man and woman were husband and wife, and the parents of the girl in arms there could be little doubt. No other than such relationship would have accounted for the atmosphere of stale familiarity which the trio carried along with them like a nimbus as they moved down the
Thomas Hardy
#31. I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.
Evel Knievel
#32. A cherry pie is ... ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.
Nick Harkaway
#33. There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.
Leo Kottke
#34. The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.
G. Willow Wilson
#35. If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.
Daphne Du Maurier
#36. Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
Walter Darby Bannard
#37. Don't you ever wonder if this life has just gotten old and stale? When suddenly faced with my possible demise, I can't think of one thing I would miss, except you.
- Vampire, Michel Baptiste
Denise K. Rago
#38. The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.
Ben Dreyfuss
#39. Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.
Michael E. Szymanczyk
#40. I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
Alexander Payne
#41. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.
Brad Blanton
#42. In his dark story collection Poachers, Tom Franklin, who once worked in a grit factory, offers the sad and sorry lives of people stuck in the back-waters of the Alabama River, who tend to subsist on a steady diet of moon-shine and stale crackers.
Nancy Pearl
#43. Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.
Sarah Silverman
#44. ...the unmistakable smell of poverty, a mixture of cigarette smoke, weed, stale sweat, and fried food.
Allison Leotta
#46. The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a rumor, faint and stale.
Cormac McCarthy
#47. The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.
Bruce Lee
#48. I grabbed a Twizzler and almost cracked a tooth biting off the stale ends. I stuck my makeshift red straw into my coffee and took a long sip and was rewarded with a dazzling smile from Maddie.
"Eew. That is so gross." But she was laughing as she said it.
"Yup, something's never change.
Lisa Roecker
#49. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.
George Carlin
#51. Holy water, a couple cloves of garlic, vials of salt, and iron fillings filled the basket, intended to be door prizes for anything that showed up in an attempt to suck my blood, carry me off to faerieland, or sell me stale cookies.
Jim Butcher
#52. If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.
Ray Bradbury
#53. Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.
Bernie Sanders
#54. This is old news, and stale," growled the Shavepate. "Your mother said the same of your father's kisses," Daario replied.
George R R Martin
#55. After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.
Mickey Mantle
#56. With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.
Bruce Lee
#57. In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself.
Michael Ritchie
#58. There is a distinction between a relationship which has a routine and a relationship which becomes routine
Johnny Rich
#59. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young.
Susanna Kearsley
#60. My room is a grave yard of whisky bottles in a swamp of stale beer, cigar ashes, and dick jokes.
Vincent Brooks
#61. Realisation danced across his face; she saw the hurt in his eyes. And a twisted, darker piece of her almost enjoyed it. The air in the room, stale with blood and sweat, and pure horror, hummed in the aftermath of her words. And finally, Ella knew what had to be done.
Shona Moyce
#62. Charisma is a word that erodes stale on the page. When compared with the tangible, flesh experience it tries to label, it falls short. The only way to understand it, is to meet it.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#63. But though the stars were spread across a great reaching blackness, the streets below were bathed in a stale gray dimness which suggested neither night nor day nor any natural phase between them.
Thomas Ligotti
#64. If you have the right to call me a hot dog why do I not have the right to call you a stale 3-day old hamburger?
Oscar De La Renta
#65. I feel like people are starting to come around and embrace rock. Because I guess they're getting sick of the stale sounds of certain electronica. They kind of get really bored with the fact that it's so self-indulgent.
Jason Reece
#66. Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.
Ann Rule
#67. Patience is an unfailing remedy for friction in personal relations. Even if a person has never won a beauty contest, has no money in the bank, can't even change a flat tire, if he or she has inexhaustible patience, then we will find that life with such a person will never grow stale.
Eknath Easwaran
#68. Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!
William Shakespeare
#69. Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.
Andrew Davidson
#70. I hate Earl Grey with a passion. It's like drinking stale perfume...
Gil McNeil
#71. Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
Mae West
#72. We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.
Barack Obama
#73. Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.
Walt Whitman
#74. Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.
Victor Webster
#76. Soon, sampled by everyone,
Stale and pallid,
I'll come out
And mumble toothlessly
That today I'm
Remarkably candid.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#77. For a moment Dustfinger felt as if he had never been away- as if he had simply had a bad dream, and the memory of it had left a stale taste on his tongue,a shadow on his heart,nothing more.
Cornelia Funke
#78. [...] the thought of entering that stale, tomb-like house again caused my skin to break out into braille.
Ronald Malfi
#79. So the list went, a fair percentage collecting both welfare and dust, moldering in the stale air of subsidized apartments as their testes shriveled day by day, consumed by the metastasizing cancer called assimilation and susceptible to the hypochondria of exile.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#80. In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger.
Ari Marcopoulos
#81. You're not done growing. I see you sometimes thinking about shit, and I think you want more than to settle with life. You want to do more, but you're stuck. That's not age. That's a choice. Your life was stale because you settled.
Bijou Hunter
#82. Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp ...
Georgia O'Keeffe
#83. She gave up the rest. The relief was physical, like releasing a long tight breath that had crowded her lungs for too long, letting it go because it was stale, the oxygen was gone.
Jennifer Egan
#84. I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.
George Vecsey
#85. The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?
Jed Rubenfeld
#86. The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.
Alan Coren
#87. O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare
#88. Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.
Marcelo Gleiser
#89. His touch comforted her because for a moment there, she would've actually drifted away in the stale evening wind of Saint County.
A.A. Gupte
#90. The bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.
Rebecca West
#91. This morning I was wondering whether you ever felt like a cow, having to chew my stale news over and over again until you're so fed up with the monotonous fare that you yawn and secretly wish Anne would dig up something new.
Anne Frank
#92. Most Religions are Social Clubs with expensive Entertainment Cheap Wine and Stale Crackers
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#93. I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.
Mel Gibson
#94. My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
Joni Mitchell
#95. Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#96. The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.
William, Saroyan
#97. Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
Vince Lombardi
#98. As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale.
Tyler Posey
#99. We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
J.B. Priestley
#100. I recall the words, the faces, the stale perfume and the pungent odor that filled the room..
Nancy B. Brewer
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