Stale Quotes

• You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

  Loretta Lynn

  Life, Night, Dry

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.117, Vintage

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• My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

  Joni Mitchell

  Names, Matter, Gone

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• 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

  Book, Watches, Littles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

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• Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Women, Age

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 2, l. [243]

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• O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

  William Shakespeare

  God, Despair, Use

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• Running water never grows stale.

  Bruce Lee

  Running, Water, Grows

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.180, Tuttle Publishing

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• You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

  Barry Mann

  Writing

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• Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
  Her infinite variety.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Age, Infinite

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 2, l. [243]

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• Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Real, Lying, Love Is

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• If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

  Dean Koontz

  Boredom, Ability, Ifs

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• 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

  Thinking, Quality, Energy

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• Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Lying, Winter

  1918 My Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

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• 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

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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• A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “The House of the Seven Gables”, p.87, Applewood Books

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• 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

  Lying, Water, Toasters

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• By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Effort, Leaving

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Men, Mind

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - books 1 and 2 (illustrated)”, p.66, The Planet

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• O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Garden, Two

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• 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 Spurgeon

  Blood, Veins, Way

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• Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute on Wednesdays. It had hosted jumble sales and Jubilee celebrations, wedding receptions and wakes, and it smelled of all of these things: of stale clothes and coffee urns, and the ghosts of home-baked cakes and meat salads; of dust and human bodies; but primarily of aged wood and stone.

  J. K. Rowling

  Coffee, Home, Dust

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• Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in a match. The commonplace is the habitual, and the habitual is a mystery that has grown stale from sense-insistence. Life undulates; there is no such thing as a level; a straight line is a myth, and all directions are indirections.

  Benjamin De Casseres

  Eye, Swimming, Cells

  "Chameleon: Being a Book of My Selves".

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• We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Lying, Communication, Ideas

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.153, Transaction Publishers

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• 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

  Wine, Sassy, Cutting

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.260, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Facts, Obsolete, Commentary

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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