Top 60 Stale Quotes

I always felt like, if I started feeling stale, my audience is probably feeling it before me.

I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don’t, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.

The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

Sin is more than turning our backs on God – it is turning our backs on life! Immorality is much more than adultery and dishonesty: it is living drab, colorless, dreary, stale, unimaginative lives.

The hard part of not working is occupying the mind. If an actor doesn’t work, he grows stale.

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.

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

If you could taste words, most corporate websites, brochures, and sales materials would remind you of stale, soggy rice cakes: nearly calorie free, devoid of nutrition, and completely unsatisfying.

Today, television industry means pool of young talents, and if you are not active in it then there are chances that you will be overshadowed by them. It is like newspaper where old becomes stale.

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.

I’ve been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I’ve done. I like it. It’s a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

Job seekers light up when they find The Muse – we’re a breath of fresh air in a stale, musty world. Our user experience focuses first and foremost on the individual, on providing them information – from content to company profiles – to make the most pressing professional decisions in their lives.

A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.

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.

There is no definitive end to anybody’s story when you’re dealing with the fluidity of chemistry, because when it gets stale, you want out.

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it’s often a very good way of clarifying issues.

The future of British politics is not the pale, male and stale stereotype of tradition. Things are changing for the better.

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

People hear traditional jazz and think it’s stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened up. With New Orleans and old-time grooves, there’s no limit in what can be done with that. I want to break the stereotype of what traditional jazz is.

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.’

Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you’re doing these 23-episode years. It’s a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world.

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

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

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.

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago – with virtually no complaints made?

There’s nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

We’re professionals and we made a pact to each other when we created the show that if we ever felt it was getting stale or repetitious or not pushing the format in new and interesting ways, we would stop doing it.

An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there’s no demand on them.

Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare. It’s a mindset that gave us political talking points, not serious solutions.

The only thing that’s really hard for me is when I go to bed after everybody else in my house gets up. And that – you just feel stale. It just feels awful to be still finishing your day when everybody else is starting theirs.

It’s always relevant – moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I’m continuing to do. You want to push boundaries, to not always be in your comfort zone. If you don’t, you get stale. So you have to find areas of growth.

Sometimes, the action genre does get stale. Although I want to go back and see my favorite characters in their tentpoles – and will religiously do that – it’s really fun to see breakout ideas and concepts. Let’s make some new stories.

I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.

I found so many reasons to call it ‘You’re Dead!’ – not just because I wanted to make this album about the journey through death. I was watching the music scene that I came up with kind of go stale and watching the lights go out on a lot of my friends.

Politics in America is like stale bread. It’s so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

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.

Write the best book you can, the one that demands to be written, no matter what genre it is. Even a trend the trades tell you has gone stale can be revitalized by a superb piece of writing. It’ll never be revitalized by someone jumping on a trend bandwagon.

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.

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.

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.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don’t use them, they get stale.

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.

I do a lot of mixed martial arts – it’s like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don’t like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.

When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.

We need people to point out groupthink – We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking – and we sometimes need to do that when it’s considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It’s really important.

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you’re out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent – you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that’s what he is trying to do.

There’s so many people that follow the trend, and then it gets to a point where it gets a little stale. So, in music; I mean, whoever’s the new trendsetter, that’s who people follow.