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Quotes About Routine

I love to cook; I cook every day. Chicken features a lot in our lives.
~ Kate Winslet
A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it.
~ Lance Armstrong
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
~ Lillian Hellman
I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.
~ Lucian Freud
Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times.
~ Marisha Pessl
I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.
~ Martin Gore
When you start organizing a person's vitamins in the morning because you love them. "Hey, don't forget to take your vitamin C." That's love.
~ Matthew Moy
In the sympathetic words of the New York Times: "All admit to being deeply frustrated at times by the lack of privacy, the physical burden, the routine of family life, the confinement of it. However, none would give up her home and family if she had the choice to make again.
~ Betty Friedan
Mrs. Quimby nibbled at her salad and glanced at her watch.
~ Beverly Cleary
the front, brushed her teeth, and went to bed
~ Beverly Cleary
did when her hair was washed. When Mother finished she
~ Beverly Cleary
Maybe when things start to change, you want to hold on to something familiar.
~ Beverly Donofrio
Ramona made a face. "Mother, do you have to say that every single morning?" she asked in exasperation.
~ Beveryly Cleary
Here are instructions for being a pigeon: (1) Walk around aimlessly for a while, pecking at cigarette butts and other inappropriate items. (2) Take fright at someone walking along the platform and fly off to a girder. (3) Have a shit. (4) Repeat.
~ Bill Bryson
This is something that has been puzzling me for years. Women will stand there watching their items being rung up, and then when the till lady says, 'That's £4.20, love,' or whatever, they suddenly look as if they've never done this sort of thing before. They go 'Oh!' and start rooting in a flustered fashion in their handbag for their purse or chequebook, as if no-one had told them that this might happen.
~ Bill Bryson
The average adult touches his face sixteen times an hour
~ Bill Bryson
I am a little dubious about this myself because I think that if you give anyone anywhere an extra twenty minutes, they will just have a cup of coffee. It's what you and I would do. It's what anyone does with twenty minutes.
~ Bill Bryson
Boys normally attended the school for seven or eight years, beginning at the age of seven. The schoolday was long and characterized by an extreme devotion to tedium. Pupils sat on hard wooden benches from six in the morning to five or six in the evening, with only two short pauses for refreshment, six days a week.
~ Bill Bryson
It's just that. It's just that sometimes all I see ahead of me is TV dinners - a sort of endless line of them dancing towards me like in a cartoon - Katz
~ Bill Bryson
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
~ Bill Watterson
Repetition is the death of magic.
~ Bill Watterson
I can see one of them clearly now, walking along with a newspaper tucked under his arm. he has cut himself shaving and a bit of tissue with a circle of blood is stuck to his cheek
~ Billy Collins
Habit is a second nature thta destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
~ Blaise Pascal
Don't you dare to squeeze that sponge over me,' she began angrily. 'This beastly getting up early! Why, at home . . .' 'Why, at home, "We don't get up till eight o'clock,"' chanted some of the girls, and laughed. They knew Gwendoline Mary's complaints by heart now.
~ Blyton Enid