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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. -- Dean Koontz
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. -- Willa Cather
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! -- William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
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
Running water never grows stale. -- Bruce Lee
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. -- William Shakespeare
You can get stale writing with each other for a while. -- Barry Mann
As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale. -- Tyler Posey
You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry. -- Loretta Lynn
Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood. -- David Berkowitz
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
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
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
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities -- Marie-Louise von Franz
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I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale. -- Richard Baxter
Most Religions are Social Clubs with expensive Entertainment Cheap Wine and Stale Crackers -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been. -- Robert Silverberg
Tidal waves surge forward,And in their wake, Stale water is replenished.(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER) -- Wendy Shreve
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled. -- Allen Tate
Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began. -- Lloyd Alexander
Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it. -- Marianne Williamson
It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself. -- Tony La Russa
The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance. -- James Dyson
The big difference between TV and theater is that you get to do a new play every week, so it's quite challenging, but it keeps you fresh. There's never any fear of getting stale in your performance. -- Kevin Chamberlin
I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change the consciousness of audiences and can make the show less funny or feel more stale. -- Robert Lopez
Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results. -- Phil Bredesen
We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs. -- John Bonham
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic. -- Christine Pelosi
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance. -- John Zorn
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth. -- Cynthia Ozick
There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams. -- Barack Obama
I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.' -- Gabriel Iglesias
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows. -- A. J. Liebling
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros. -- Jack Welch
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
A stale mind is the devil's breadbox. -- Eloisa James
Without new ideas success can become stale -- Anthony Bourdain
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Fish and guests in three days are stale. -- John Lyly
Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated. -- Ellen Glasgow
Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back. -- Ray Toro
Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale. -- Vince Lombardi
While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
The art of government is not to let me grow stale. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale. -- Samuel Johnson
The same energy not allowed to move becomes stagnant, stale, creates sadness -- Rajneesh
Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value. -- Shri Radhe Maa
I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality! -- Mae West
The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing. -- Bruce Lee
I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale. -- Ted Naifeh
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with. -- George Carlin
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world. -- Jerry Saltz
A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty. -- Wernher von Braun
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. -- Brad Blanton
Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years. -- Benjamin Franklin
I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale. -- Mark Ruffalo
After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little. -- Boris Kodjoe
The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. -- Joni Mitchell
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. -- Tom Perrotta
Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation. -- Marcelo Gleiser
You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you. -- Deepak Chopra
Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues. -- Evan Davis
I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival -- Gillian Flynn
To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur. -- Brassai
I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale. -- Evel Knievel
Keep food in the fridge, so it don't go stale. When there is nothing left to eat, I bite my nails. -- Big Daddy Kane
The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world. -- John Dos Passos
There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way. -- Alex Van Halen
Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way. -- Alex Van Halen
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss! -- Wyndham Lewis
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
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
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
Wrestling became very stale and boring for me, and I wasn't really making any money with it. So I decided to get into fighting. -- Josh Koscheck
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
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
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
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
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. -- Nicholas Sparks
We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit. -- John W. Gardner
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
Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale. -- Terry Tempest Williams
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
I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale. -- Sue Grafton
If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings. -- Muhammad Asad
Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times. -- Johnny Thunders
By being able to play different styles I can get more work. I also learn so much from each of those experiences. It keeps everything from getting stale. -- Monte Pittman
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction. -- Rachel Cusk
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
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
One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out. -- Mary Quant
The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly. -- Michael Grade
Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission? -- Charles Lamb
If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others, it is stale and its not worth it. -- Massimo Vignelli
It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale. -- Sister Souljah
It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought. -- Susanna Kaysen
Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions. -- Minna Antrim
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson. -- Randall Jarrell
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
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
How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths? -- M.B. Dallocchio
We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for periods also keeps it from going stale. -- Bent Saether
Every movie is a surprise. That's what is so fun about it. You can be planning a movie for years, and then you'd better be surprised every day, or it's going to be stale. -- Richard Shepard

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