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Quotes About Tedious

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.
~ Pierre Loti
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
~ Agatha Christie
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
~ Edward Abbey
I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.
~ Fran Lebowitz
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
~ Hugh Grant
There's a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don't have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they're all the same shade of gray.
~ Ann Aguirre
Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don't have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.
~ David Byrne
there are very few jobs that don't involve at least a few pointless or idiotic elements.
~ David Graeber
Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
~ Brandon Sanderson
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.
~ Bruce Lee
Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.
~ Mark Strickson
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
~ Seneca the Younger
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
~ Anatole France
My backstory is so tedious. I hope the interviews are turning a corner now.
~ Ray LaMontagne
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.
~ Ernie J Zelinski
Deare knight, as deare, as euer knight was deare, That all these sorrowes suffer for my sake, High heuen behold the tedious toyle, ye for me take . . .
~ Edmund Spenser
I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.
~ Morgan Freeman
I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.
~ Philip Pullman
Is all this necessary?" Bowen wanted to know. "Perhaps not," Wolfe allowed, "but I'm exposing a murderer and claim a measure of indulgence. You must have expected to spend hours here. Am I tedious?" "Go ahead.
~ Rex Stout
But a tedious way to a grievous end(745);
~ Richard Baxter
For the scientist the analytical process does not diminish the splendour of what he or she sees. Every detail added is an extra stanza added to a great epic poem, one that is never complete, nor yet ever tedious in its particulars
~ Richard Fortey
Silliman called fractional distillation "tedious," and, in fact, it took him more than three weeks to complete the experiment. But he identified seven different component oils mixed together in the crude petroleum, ranging in color, viscosity, and odor
~ Richard Rhodes