Quotes About Routine

Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.

Your son having to have a poo-team," said Mrs Stokes. "I've never heard of that before in such a young person. So, where are they? How many people normally help him go to the toilet?

Pooh and Piglet were sitting together over breakfast at that pleasant time of the day when you know that there is much to be done but not quite yet.

It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the purest essence of anyone's genius contracts itself to a precious few hours.

That's not how it works around here, and our whole existence depends on things working.

Sample after sample. Class after class. Puzzle after puzzle. Day after day. Month after month.

Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Thirst for revenge. That was what he did for three more days. Alone. On the twenty-sixth day, the door opened.

After the initial shock, nothing was strange anymore. Anything could become normal.

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

People will wake up in the dark and pad to their kitchen needing strength, and the reassurance that something delightful is about to happen—and hoping that this small chore of making coffee might set the tone for a day filled with difficult, wonderful things.

Making an espresso is a performance that lasts ninety seconds and then you're done. You go on to the next performance. You may get applause or you may get boos, and then you move on.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Then Frank said, 'Have you ever heard that when five o'clock comes, it's martini time? We could be right in the middle of a scene, but it's over for me, because it's martini time. Did you ever hear that?

Just because it's common sense,' he says of the process, 'doesn't mean it's common practice.

cook and sleep. Until

Again last night I dreamed the dream called Laundry.

4091 East Olympic Boulevard proved to be a nondescript one-storey sandstone building of the sort you drive blithely by every day, knowing it's full of paper-pushers and clock-watchers, and nobody's in there writing a symphony or taming a lion or having an orgasm.

To operate a machine one must operate like a machine. Using a machine to do what we cannot do, we find we must do what the machine does.

How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can't slow down? They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

Many more Mondays, many more games.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

Early to rise and early to bed Makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

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