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Quotes About Tedious

I have made a special point of leading a life free from reproof. It's been tedious in the extreme and, as a result, I shouldn't be left to deal with someone else's mess.
~ Tasha Alexander
The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.
~ Jamie Hyneman
I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.
~ Brad Garrett
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.
~ Richard Asher
it comes out of the fact that during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well.
~ Neal Stephenson
Life gets tedious," she quoted. "Not sometimes. All the time.
~ Nevil Shute
You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.
~ Nicholas Sparks
One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane.
~ Cobie Smulders
He is playing a bass part upon his cello, and so the excitement is nothing to him; no matter what happens in the treble, it is his task to saw out one long-drawn and lugubrious note after another, from four o'clock in the afternoon until nearly the same hour next morning, for his third of the total income of one dollar per hour.
~ Upton Sinclair
I once read a Stephen King book that used the term SSDD. Same shit, different day.
~ Kristin Hannah
Una vida solitaria se hace larga y tediosa. Sin embargo, cuando la compartes con la persona amada, en un santiamén llegas a la bifurcación donde tienes que decirte adiós
~ Ky?ichi Katayama
Please recall that I am the pale neurasthenic one and you are the stern heroic one," Matthew said to James. "It is very tedious when you mix up our roles." "So what is my role?" said Christopher. "Mad inventor, of course," said Matthew promptly. "And Thomas is the one with a good heart." "Lord, I sound dull," said Thomas.
~ Cassandra Clare
Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
~ Oscar Wilde
The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.
~ James Baldwin
There is nobody more boring than the undefeated.
~ Tina Brown
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
~ Ouida
A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
~ Stevie Smith
Cold shoulders are a predictable reaction, and predictability is tedious.
~ Nora Roberts
Mr. Herschel brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam," to which Herschel replied, "It is quite possible."
~ Charles Babbage
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
~ Charles Bukowski
The next forty-five minutes in that office was about as much fun as a day at Disney World—when it's pouring rain. And all there is to eat are hot-dog buns. And you get electrocuted on the rides.
~ James Patterson
I hated 'The Lovely Bones'. I thought her vision of Heaven was amazingly uninspired and very depressing. The book was just tedious.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.
~ Susan Orlean