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Quotes About Tedious

Is she there now?" It was remarkable how quickly this was growing tedious. "Seb—" "Now? "Why are you here?
~ Julia Quinn
Just so you know, I'm a really boring interview. I hate doing them.
~ Chris O'Donnell
I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.
~ Brad Garrett
Jem preached the longest, most tedious sermon she ever heard in her life. He said that sin was about the most sinful thing he could think of, and no one who sinned could be a success, and blessed was he who sat in the seat of the scornful; in short, he repeated his own version of everything they had heard for the past three nights.
~ Harper Lee
Sitting and listening to people you went to school with is excruciating for an hour. To hear the same conversion day in and day out is better than the Chinese torture method.
~ Harper Lee
I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
~ Adam Driver
In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.
~ Craig Brown
Alas, it is the dear-bought privilege of the unfortunate to be tedious!
~ Sophia Lee
The Guest Speaker I have to keep myself awake While the guest speaker speaks. For his and for procedure's sake I have to keep myself awake. However long his talk might take (And, Christ, it feels like weeks) I have to keep myself awake While the guest speaker speaks.
~ Sophie Hannah
There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.
~ John Grisham, The Rainmaker
I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing . . . I don't want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports
~ Michael Crichton
Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.
~ Michael Crichton
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
~ Matt Damon
Conversation from the living room was boring, all
~ Beverly Cleary
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question ... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit.
~ T.S. Eliot
Assule went on and on about the civilization that had been here first. It could have been very interesting if he hadn't managed to make it so boring. I don't know how he did it, actually. Some latent talent for sending everyone droad, I suppose.
~ Tanith Lee
It was like one of those nightmare eight-a.m. MLA panels: endless.
~ Junot Diaz
Todo lo cotidiano es mucho y feo.
~ Francisco de Quevedo
She didn't bother to understand it all; it was history --boring boring boring.
~ Frank Beddor
Stellar Showboat Maclolm Jameson Special Investigator Billy Neville was annoyed, and for more reasons than one. He had just done a tedious year in the jungles of Venus stamping out the gooroo racket and then, on his way home to a well-deserved leave and rest, had been
~ Frank Belknap Long
A fair proportion of each teacher's day is frittered away on pointless paperwork and bureaucracy...In my long experience ,meetings rarely achieve anything useful;they consist of of hours of endless,tortuous waffle and no decisions about anything.
~ Frank Chalk
Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.
~ Franny Billingsley
May your excuses for avoiding tedious social engagements always sound credible. "... and so, having just given our cat an emergency circumcision, it seemed inappropriate to arrive late to your son's bris.
~ Bradley Trevor Greive
I'd rather walk these chasms with a compulsive murderer than you. At least then, when the conversation got tedious, I'd have an easy way out." "And your feet stink," [Shallan] said. "See? Too early. I can't possibly be witty at this hour. So no arguments." She hesitated, then continued more softly. "Besides, no murderer would agree to accompany you. Everyone needs to have some standards, after all.
~ Brandon Sanderson