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Quotes About Monotonous

I'm a features writer, and an Indian at that, so I get all the shit jobs. Not the dangerous shit jobs or the monotonous shit jobs. No. I get to write the articles designed to please the eye, ear, and heart. And there is no journalism more soul-endangering to write than journalism that aims to please.
~ Sherman Alexie
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
~ Octavio Paz
Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life.
~ Sam Shepard
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
~ Simone Weil
Episodes. Like depression is a sitcom with a fun punch line each time. Or a TV box set loaded with cliffhangers. The only cliffhanger in my life is Will I ever get rid of this shit? and believe me, it gets pretty monotonous.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Depressive Episodes. [I]Episodes.[/i] Like depression is a sitcom with a fun punch line each time. Or a TV box set loaded with cliffhangers. The only cliffhanger in my life is Will I ever get rid of this s***? And believe me, it gets pretty monotonous.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN.
~ Sharon Osbourne
Sunshine - sunshine! tedious, changeless, monotonous. Not that discreet English Sunshine which varies its charm with clouds, with rainbows, with golden mist... here the sun has ceased trying to please so venerable a world.
~ Gertrude Bell
Like something out of a boring old novel.
~ Sarra Manning
[First line] "The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.
~ Nora Roberts
The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and the scenery on the last leg is pretty monotonous.
~ Mary Roach
He did his little daily task like a mill-horse, who goes round and round with his eyes bandaged, not knowing what work it is grinding out.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Some people never have any luck. All at once, as though a thick veil had been whisked aside, he clearly saw the wretchedness?the bottomless, monotonous wretchedness?of his existence. The wretchedness which had been, which was, and which was yet to come. His last days indistinguishable from the first, with nothing ahead of him or behind him or around him, nothing in his heart, nothing anywhere.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.
~ Gustave Flaubert
She's a gray woman with gray sayings." "A crape-hanger.
~ Benedict Freedman
Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
~ Jules Renard
The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it. It weeps monotonously as water weeps as the wind weeps over snowfields. Impossible to silence it. It weeps for distant things. Hot southern sands yearning for white camellias. Weeps arrow without target evening without morning and the first dead bird on the branch. Oh, guitar! Heart mortally wounded by five swords.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
The crickets were incessant and plenteous, their swarming tune as monotonous as a Mariah Carey CD, though not quite as grating.
~ Harlan Coben
ECW was the most fun for me artistically. And then, WWE, it was also very fun, but that was part of it. It was also a very stressful, monotonous schedule. There was a lot of politics, adjusting to that, and I am not a politician, and I don't play those games. So that was very frustrating for me as well.
~ Rob Van Dam
I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
~ Adam Driver
She tries to think, but the monotonous stuttering of the wheels breaks the flow of her thoughts, and the narcotic cowl of sleep tightens over her throbbing forehead—that muffled and yet overpowering railroad-sleep in which one lies rapt and benumbed as though in a shuddering black coal sack made of metal.
~ Stefan Zweig
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
~ Matt Damon