Top 177 Staple Quotes & Sayings

Millets are an integral part of tribal life and a staple diet of tribals of Odisha since time immemorial.

'Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal.

Sweaters are a closet staple. They look great under a leather vest or with a pair of tailored trousers.

High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.

Virulent anti-Semitism is, of course, a staple of militant Islamist ideology.

I'm a 90s child and I have grown up on a staple diet of David Dhawan films, Baazigar, Rangeela and Dil Chahta Hai.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

I don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.

Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.

My staple food include Aloo gobhi ki sabji and yellow daal, and on Sundays I usually just have rajma chawal.

I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.

We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.

I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in.

I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple of her childhood - and thus she made it one of ours, too.

Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.

"Entourage" is a staple LA-based show and people say it's pretty real and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.

You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.

Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me.

The beard has gotta stay. That's my staple. I can't get rid of it.

Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.

You were cool if you had on a pair of Air Force 1s. It's still a staple for me while on tour.

I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life.

A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family.

'American Idol' is a pop-culture staple that left the air too soon. ABC is the right home to reignite the fan base.

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.

Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

I bring the staple of my culture.

Mango is always a staple in my household.

I walk to work, so boots are a staple for me.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

You can't staple me to the Brooklyn hipster. I don't buy skinny jeans and $50 T-shirts. I wear the same clothes I've always worn, from Target.

The pool table, like bathroom graffiti and horrible lighting, is a dive bar staple.

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

I think it's really important that the anti-bullying messages get into schools and become a staple in every school.

More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

I think women should have what they determine to be a staple in their closet, because who's to say that my staple is someone else's staple? I'm this tall, and I live in this city, and I have to walk the kids to school, and I don't tend to drive as much - my life requirements are radically different than yours or hers or his. Staples are: What do you need? And then, what do you want? "Need" comes first, typically; "want" gets taken care of occasionally.

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

To us in Asia, rice is such a staple, we take it for granted. I didn't even think about how I made it until I came to the Western world.

You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.

I always have a pair of Ray-Bans in my bag and lots of pairs at home because they seem to go missing. They're a real staple.