Top 100 Staple Quotes
#1. I swore never to use the emoticon ever ... until one day, offhandedly and without much thought, I used my first and, shortly thereafter, in spite of my initial resistance, became a regular staple of my daily correspondence
Joshua Ferris
#2. Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.
Thomas Keneally
#3. The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
Paul Di Filippo
#4. Rag & Bone is a big part of my closet. I just really like how their jeans fit; I wear them a lot, and I think they make really cool staple pieces.
Gigi Hadid
#5. Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#6. You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
Kat Graham
#8. IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
Ambrose Bierce
#9. Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also
patterns of communal interdependence.
Marshall McLuhan
#10. I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!
Candace Cameron Bure
#11. You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
Al Yankovic
#12. Why is everyone so surprised that I have a stun gun?" "Because I've seen you staple your hand to a purchase order," Andrea told me.
Molly Harper
#13. I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.
Emily Dickinson
#14. You better ignore this.
You better staple your eyes shut
and put pot-lids over your ears
and pinch your nose with vice grips
and cement your mouth shut
with real cement and while
you're at it or in it or whatever
cut off your hands for good measure
B.J. Ward
#15. Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.
George Vecsey
#16. No one had ever looked at her just like that before, and it had the effect upon her of making her feel, for perhaps the first time in her life, a strong desire to lay the burden of her cares upon other shoulders. Captain Staple's were certainly broad enough to bear them.
Georgette Heyer
#17. What, everyone likes Kool-Aid. It's a childhood staple.
Skye Warren
#18. I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me.
Hunter S. Thompson
#19. Black Jack. A common name for rogues and scoundrels in the eighteenth century. A staple of romantic fiction, the name conjured up charming highwaymen, dashing blades in plumed hats. The reality waled at my side.
Diana Gabaldon
#20. I always have a pair of Ray-Bans in my bag and lots of pairs at home because they seem to go missing. They're a real staple.
Kate Moss
#21. Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.
Mitt Romney
#22. The cultivation of a single staple grain was, in itself, an important step in legibility and hence, appropriation. Monoculture fosters uniformity at many different levels. . .A society shaped powerfully by monoculture was easier to monitor, assess, and tax than one shaped by agricultural diversity.
James C. Scott
#23. Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#24. Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.
Auguste Escoffier
#25. The impulse to freeze the system, to try to tape all the cracks and staple all the cleavages, to ensure that nobody has to explain to their kid why Christmas this year is going to be a lousy Christmas, that is one of our greatest dangers.
Will Wilkinson
#26. Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.
Paul Fry
#27. I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.
Lorene Scafaria
#28. High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.
Chicken John
#29. Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players.
Brittany Howard
#30. 'Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.
Pauly Shore
#31. Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create.
Steve Aoki
#32. Burgers and fries are an American staple. On the same token, my kids eat vegetables, and they always have eaten vegetables. They didn't have a choice but to eat vegetables.
Don Thompson
#33. Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple.
Alison Moyet
#34. Love should be a staple in our history book. Wasn't it an act of love when the god of the sky chose to keep us? Isn't love what makes living bearable, and unbearable?" -Daphne Leander
Lauren DeStefano
#35. Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life." (Wellesly High School commencement speech, "You Are Not Special", 6-12)
Teacher David McCullough
#36. I don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.
Daniel Tosh
#37. Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.
Mark Gatiss
#38. When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,
those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.
Henry David Thoreau
#39. There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling and nasty work. Rice is the staple food and the wealth of Japan. Its revenues were estimated in rice. Rice is grown almost wherever irrigation is possible.
Isabella Bird
#40. My books are my staple diet. As serious as insulin doses for those who are diabetics!
Hlovate
#41. Crazyass passion is the staple of life and persistence its nourishing force. Without them, you cannot cross the trail.
Rinker Buck
#42. Political scandals, economic disaster, suffering in all its familiar forms - these were the daily staple of a disaster-prone, uneasy planet.
Alexander McCall Smith
#43. Hoodies are definitely street wear, no doubt. It's amazing how hoodies have become such an important staple in people's wardrobes.
Ian Astbury
#44. For many characters, the prospect of having a child in their life brings up a lot of issues about their own parents. And who doesn't love that? Bad mommy or daddy issues are a delicious staple in romance novels.
Molly O'Keefe
#45. In old stapled problems, you can see the TB vaccine marks in the upper left corner where the staples have been removed and replaced, as the problem - even the staple holes of the problem - was copied and sent on to other departments for further action, copying, and stapling.
Nicholson Baker
#46. I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.
Chuck Palahniuk
#47. Hotness to me is scary. I don't want to be hot. I just want to be a staple. I want to be something that's trusted.
Tyra Banks
#48. Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.
Andrew Nikiforuk
#49. I've always thought 'Today' is an iconic staple of morning life.
Scott Greenstein
#50. It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
David F. Houston
#51. The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.
Jeremiah Brent
#52. Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.
Evelyn Waugh
#54. Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.
Lawrence Durrell
#55. If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall.
Myra McEntire
#56. I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
Victoria Justice
#57. Duane Allman inspired the group to explore the extended jam format that was already a staple of the Allman Brothers act. Moreover, his ferocious slide playing motivated Clapton to turn in some of the finest guitar performances of his career
Bob Whitlock
#58. Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control.
John Holdren
#59. Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.
Christine Feehan
#60. Shop for what we wanted, then hunt for garments with blue tags, removing them with the staple remover and restapling the tags to our garments. Sickening,
Janet Mock
#61. Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today, the well-written letter remains a staple of business success and one of the strongest connecting links between human beings.
Rosalie Maggio
#62. He was always 'checking in' to see if I needed any help with my campaign, which on the surface seemed nice enough, but it was done in a condescending tone that made me want to staple his lip to his tie.
Molly Harper
#63. Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters,
it's not real unless it's on the tube.
Ed Rollins
#64. The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.
Shane Claiborne
#65. A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I get it.
Mara Brock Akil
#66. He was around the desk in two strides, reaching out for me. I knocked his hand away, grabbed the staple gun, pressed it into his crotch, and bam, bam, bam, bam ... I stapled his nuts.
Janet Evanovich
#67. I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.
Jim Lee
#68. Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?
James Lee Burke
#69. Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state ... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?
William Alcott
#70. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
William Shakespeare
#71. I think it's really important that the anti-bullying messages get into schools and become a staple in every school.
Sherri Saum
#72. There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
Ferran Adria
#73. I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in.
Padma Lakshmi
#74. My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal.
Louise Nurding
#75. Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)
Robin R. Meyers
#76. I wrote 'Young Guns' on spec because I really believed that the young age of these guys historically, the whole legend of Billy dying at 21, would attract a young staple of stars, and that would be the game-changer.
John Fusco
#77. I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me.
Drake
#78. All in all, I'd like to venture into film. Films are my staple diet, so I would love to be part of a feature film, independent film ... it all just depends on the story and the people behind it, really.
Tom Weston-Jones
#79. I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.
Russell Smith
#80. I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.
Taylor Schilling
#81. For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.
Michael Musto
#82. Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.
Robert Lustig
#83. Black has always been a staple for me, but that's not really a good favorite color. I've been really into browns lately.
Dave Douglas
#84. Sweaters are a closet staple. They look great under a leather vest or with a pair of tailored trousers.
Nina Garcia
#85. Art is a staple of mankind ... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.
Jamake Highwater
#86. Ice cream isn't junk food, Kyle. It's a staple like milk or eggs.
M.K. Schiller
#87. Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.
Marie Brennan
#88. I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.
James Badge Dale
#89. Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.
Alistair Begg
#90. When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.
Diane Abbott
#91. No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.
Timothy White
#92. When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back, 'But this is America.' And I go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'
Quentin Tarantino
#93. The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.
Charles Sturt
#94. Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.
John Milton
#95. If it has a staple in it it doesn't get read. Never walk into a presentation without a one-page summary.
Bill Jensen
#96. It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
Quentin Tarantino
#97. I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life.
Raphael Saadiq
#98. The masks had been made in Korea, delivering back to the West the faces they had given the rest of the globe: presidents, screen stars, and mass murderers. The rubber filament inevitably snapped from the staple after five minutes. The graft wouldn't take.
Colson Whitehead
#99. Wow has a reverberation - wowowowowow - and this pulse can soften us, like the electrical massage an acupuncturist directs to your spine or cramped muscle, which feels like a staple gun, but good.
Anne Lamott
#100. A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family.
Tommy Hilfiger
