Quotes About Routine

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning- Big purse or little purse?

Cluster C liked everything to stay the same, forever.

school tomorrow.

Danseuse routine and my fame grew. I could walk into a

I reach for my clothes

But the foliage of mundane life just grew over the past a bit every day if you let it. And maybe that was the most extraordinary event of all.

Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes.

But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.

He began saying chugga chugga chugga when he walked down the hall of the apartment. He was practicing being trained.

life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

For Kirsti, the soldiers were simply part of the landscape, something that had always been there, on every corner, as unimportant as lampposts, throughout her remembered life

The life where nothing was ever unexpected

He calls you occasionally at the office to ask how you are. You doodle numbers and curlicues on the corners of Rolodex cards. Fiddle with your Phi Beta Kappa key. Stare out the window. You always, always, say: Fine.

You always say that, said Evan, but then you go on your trips and vacations and then you settle back into things and then you're quiet for a while and then you say you're fine, you're busy, and then after a while you say you're going crazy again, and you start all over.

We don't do that in New York, rasped Odette. She cleared her throat. No? Pinky smiled and put his hand on her thigh. No, it's, um, the cash machines. You just… you wait at them. Forever. Your whole life you're just always — her hand sliced the air—there.

Dionisio arose reluctantly from his bed, went to the window to see what kind of day it was, and went to the telephone to call the police.

It was now possible to wake up in the morning and be amazed and grateful to be yet alive and living in a solid house, and to go to bed at night full of relief at having lived a commonplace and uneventful day.

Stanley took a shower—if you could call it that, ate dinner—if you could call it that, and went to bed—if you could call his smelly and scratchy cot a bed.

You are to dig one hole each day, including Saturdays and Sundays. Each hole must be five feet deep, and five feet across in every direction. Your shovel is your measuring stick. Breakfast is served at 4:30.

This was the eighteenth day in a row that the special was Mushroom Surprise. It was called Mushroom Surprise because it would have been a surprise if anybody had ever ordered it. No one ever did—except Louis, of course. That's why they'd had it for eighteen days. There was always plenty left over.

the word DISCIPLINE.