“ Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining armor has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure. ”
- Robert A. Cook- Copy
- 725
“ 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- Copy
- 693
“ Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
- 255
“ What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. ”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Our job is like a baker's work — his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale, after a week they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out. ”
- Ryszard Kapuscinski- Copy
- 3K
“ O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3K
“ 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- Copy
- 734
“ Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.1K
“ STALE is basically a weekly: most articles will appear for a week. Elements will change constantly. You will lose track a lot. You may be reading an article one day only to find that the end has been removed while you were reading the beginning. ”
- Michael Kindling- Copy
- 3.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.1K
“ So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the "great mystery" which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that… ”
- Jeremy W. Hayward- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a "revolutionary" review, or read a "revolutionary" speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else… ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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