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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. -- Mason Cooley
I'm very staid compared to my students, actually. -- Kathy Acker
To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London. -- Theo James
I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine. -- Neil Cavuto
Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television. -- Thomas Schlamme
We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple. -- Mark Cuban
We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. -- Margot Kidder
I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with. -- Matt Bomer
It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about. -- Colum McCann
By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish. -- Kurt Eichenwald
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that. -- Gary Kemp
If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time. -- David Blunkett
The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years. -- Mary Ellen Snodgrass
So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may choose something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid -- Robert Frost
So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may choose something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid. -- Robert Frost
You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please. -- Thomas Morley
But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. -- John Milton
Artful without being pretentious, well-made without being staid, Trey Moody's investigations of our weird and ordinary world are a little off, by which I mean that they're onto something. Read 'em and be crept into. -- Graham Foust
Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody. -- Patrick Califia

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