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Quotes About Tedious

if there was one thing she found more tedious than thinking about politics it was talking about politics.
~ Kate Atkinson
It was amazing how tedious reading about sex could be at this time of the day, any time of the day, in fact.
~ Kate Atkinson
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
~ William Shakespeare
These tedious old fools!
~ William Shakespeare
As in a theater, the eyes of men,After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage,Are idly bent on him that enters next,Thinking his prattle to be tedious.
~ William Shakespeare
Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
~ William Shakespeare
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
~ William Shakespeare
mind-numbingly boring,
~ David Walliams
I am genuinely dull. Duller than the world's dullest-ever thing, so dull it's not worth the time it takes to imagine it.
~ Dawn French
Everything intelligent is so boring.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.
~ Storm Jameson
Todo esto se ha descrito mil veces, quizá no merece la pena detenerse de nuevo en esta sórdida y apestosa ópera. Además, quizá tampoco sea útil ni pertinente comparar la guerra con una ópera, y menos cuando no se es muy aficionado a la ópera, aunque la guerra, como ella, sea grandiosa, enfática, excesiva, llena de ingratas morosidades, como ella arme mucho ruido y con frecuencia, a la larga, resulte bastante fastidiosa.
~ Jean Echenoz
because he's so boring he makes you yawn just thinking about him.
~ Elizabeth Aston
I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Anything can get tedious after enough time, Angela—even watching heartbreaking acts of naked vulnerability.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us.
~ Alfred Lansing
Almost nothing is more tedious than complaining about the weather.
~ Meghan Daum
It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.
~ Frank Rich
I found out animation is incredibly boring. You draw and draw and draw, and it's only a few seconds done in a week.
~ Caroll Spinney
I worked from 8 A.M. to 12 A.M., and sometimes until 2 A.M. There were no shifts, just a few dozen people, and we all polished glass. I didn't enjoy it.
~ Zhou Qunfei
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
~ Hilaire Belloc
I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.
~ Rita Rudner
Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.
~ Timothy Keller