Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
If you don’t move, you get stale.
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.
Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.
You have to evolve. Stagnation breeds boredom.
When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.
The House of Lords is like a glass of Champaign that has stood for five days.
You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.
I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.
There's a lot of brilliant comics who are amazing, but you can see them doing the same 20 minutes that they were doing five years ago, verbatim. I think that doesn't lend itself to progressing.
The essence of decay is inactivity.
I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.
One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss.
Our political debate is about as exciting as a wet sponge.
If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."
Routines can be a rut.
A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.
Running water never grows stale.
You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.
The 'Love Island' villa smells. That's the one thing the audience at home never see.
After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.
Put your own twist to it. That's how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.
Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
