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Quotes About Tedious

Holidays can become tedious without something to read.
~ Ruskin Bond
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
~ Peter Shaffer
My backstory is so tedious.
~ Ray LaMontagne
The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage.
~ Tom Scholz
The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.
~ Paul Di Filippo
I don't like teaching, because it's so repetitive - especially the beginning of class, which is always more or less the same and has to be carefully done. It's tedious. But I know it's necessary for dancers to keep working on technique.
~ Merce Cunningham
I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my songs on the computer. Since writing orchestration is tedious, I often put an arrangement on the keyboard and let someone better-qualified finish it.
~ Brian Stokes Mitchell
Netbot was the first comparison shopping company. We realized comparison shopping can be quite tedious if you are driving from one furniture store to another. On the Internet, you can automatically look at a bunch of different stores and see where can you get the best price on a computer or some such thing, so that was the motivation.
~ Oren Etzioni
You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult.
~ Rajiv Menon
Without a doubt, the worst part of being a mom is having to floss my kids' teeth every night. It's so tedious.
~ Molly Shannon
I don't know, I don't enjoy the business bit of it at all. Anything that's not the acting. It's all sort of like pulling teeth.
~ Paula Patton
The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious. It was hard work because there is so much known about John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. To try to distill that into a clear narrative that's interesting and tells two great stories was a real challenge.
~ Kelly Masterson
Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedius, but not if you brought a book.
~ Robert Mailer Anderson
explanations take such a dreadful time
~ Lewis Carroll
If life could be reduced to the purely rational, to a solvable equation, there would be no mystery, no excitement. Life would become utterly predictable; a tedious movie that could never surprise.
~ Douglas E. Richards
If life could be reduced to the purely rational, to a solvable equation, there would be no mystery, no excitement. Life would become utterly predictable; a tedious movie that could never surprise. The
~ Douglas E. Richards
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
~ Charles Bukowski
The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.
~ Charles Webster Leadbeater
I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
~ Jo Walton
I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude.
~ Joan Collins
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes–and six months later you have to start all over again.
~ Joan Rivers
I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
~ Joan Rivers
It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
~ David Johansen
At night his most frequent recurring dream was of doing The Times crossword puzzle; his most disagreeable that he was reading a tedious book aloud to his family.
~ Evelyn Waugh