Quotes About Repetition

I sit in the coffee shop waiting for night and I watch the same people scratch their asses at the same tables behind the same windows. I think of Camus, lovely and brittle, and the gunman on the sands and know I'll be here tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow with these lovely blue-gray sharks dwarfing the evening with their self-important air, looking into the murky bottoms of coffee cups and smoking my never-ending cigarettes.

I learned that once you take advantage of the opportunity to learn and experience and open yourself to a new way of living, you can't wait to do it again and do it better and find new ways of feeling that again and again and again.

In 1975, a 17-year-old boy was killed while riding his Moped. He was killed exactly one year after his 17-year-old brother was killed while riding the same Moped in the same intersection by the same taxi with the same driver carrying the same passenger.

The fact that we've heard a claim repeated over and over again doesn't make it correct. But it can lead us to accept this claim as correct even when it's not, because we can confuse a statement's familiarity with its accuracy

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they've been used a couple of times.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time!

One more thing, one more time.

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

If you have someone falling out of the boat, you'd have to drag the boat up the river and film the same scene ten times, every time, dragging the boat exactly where it was up the river.

A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!