Quotes About Tedious

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

The treadmill and the damn elliptical - they get so boring to me.

...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.

The long and painstakingly detailed discussions seemed to me nothing more than the incessant nattering of toads in a water filled ditch and of no greater consequence.

The older I get the harder it is to stay awake during boring presentations.

YOU DULL ME!

Trevor wondered if anyone in the outside world could even guess at the horror of working in the Planning Department

It was turning out to be one of those days. The sort you got every day.

Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

nice = boring

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking — which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling. Nothing is fun when you have to do it — over and over, again and again...

I had tried to write about young women in London who had jobs and boyfriends, and it was so tedious.

I've always been pretty indifferent towards the royal family. I went on a school trip once to Buckingham Palace, and all I can remember is that it was really boring.

'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.

Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy.

Novelists always set up obstacles for lovers to overcome to make their eventual union all the more sastisfying, but Gomberville portrays love as a long, tedious ocean voyage to someplace miserable.

I tell you, being on a soap is the hardest work, and it gets so old. Get on your mark, get in the light, don't turn too far upstage - that's all it is.

So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate's immortal loom

I was in a bank meeting in London once that was so torturous, I had a flash of inspiration for another client.

Nicht alles, was langwierig ist, ist langweilig.' (Thomas Mann to his prospective publisher, in reference to the MS of the novel Buddenbrooks - cited by the Thomas Mann Buddenbrookhaus in Lübeck).

How's work?" I asked. Mind-numbing. Isort crap, Xerox crap, research crap. Now and then I file crap at the courthouse. Those jaunts through the halls of justice really get the old adrenaline pumping.

Big book, big bore.