Quotes About Repetition

Jag minns att hon talade stockholmska. 'Hesten eter grönt gres.' Hon fick upprepa det; lika roligt varje gång.

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.

If you are out on the wheel, you are caught on the dizzying momentum of going round in circles. We call it 'samsara' ? 'samsara-vatta' means 'going round in circles' — endless cycles, not really going anywhere but round. That is why when you do things from ignorance, you find yourself coming back and repeating the same things over and over again.

I'm absolutely certain." Say something enough and it not only sounds true, it becomes memory.

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.

War stuttered, repeated its sentences, forgot its lessons, over and over.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

If there was a lesson to be taken from history, it was that men lived but never learned from

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'

I went through a phase where I watched 'Jurassic Park' every day for about 13 or 14 days after school when I was young.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

It's so boring to put on make-up and change clothes five times in a row for one photo shoot.

I've been on TV a long time, and I've never had a catch phrase.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

I lose my wallet all the time, and I break my phone all the time.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.