Quotes About Stagnation

Not for the first time, Ofelia wondered if humans had thought of anything really new in the past ten thousand years. Had they only wandered the stars because they were tired of their stale jokes and curses?

Her great dead friends did not seem worth reading that night. They always said the same things now—over and over again they said the same things, and nothing new was to be got out of them any more for ever. No doubt they were greater than any one was now, but they had this immense disadvantage, that they were dead. Nothing further was to be expected of them; while of the living, what might one not still expect?

No children, that is. Ernest, in the matter of posterity, had been a blind alley, a cul-de-sac. Strange and sad not to go on in any way, to come to a dead stop.

The Republicans were locked in: they would block any efforts to increase the minimum wage by even a few nickels. The

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

They thus remained almost motionless, while their supply of meat dwindled alarmingly.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Quando un popolo rifiuta un progresso facile da raggiungere, quando un veicolo, spinto da dieci uomini, rimane inchiodato sul posto, quando un bambino si abbruttisce davanti al televisore per ore e ore, quando un'idea si cui è stata dimostrata l'inutilità continua a nuocere, allora si scopre, con stupore, lo spaventoso potere dell'immobile.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

In modelling, some girls have been working for the last 15 years and they are still in the same cycle of what they have been doing. It is too big a pool and I am not going to travel with the herd. I need to pave my own way.

The thing with the film industry is if you become popular in one kind of role, you keep getting cast in the same thing.

With me and Portland, it wasn't moving anywhere. I wasn't given a bigger role as I played more and more with the club. I felt I could have been utilized in a bigger way.

Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

I think the majority of politicians keep their positions for too long.

Nobody wants a stalemate in constitutional development.

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.

Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

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.

I think people are justifiably fed up of hearing migration talked about at the E.U. level but not seeing anything happen in practice.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

I've been the same size since I was 12. They thought I was going to be 7 feet tall. I never grew another inch.