Quotes About Repetition

The three of them sat at the kitchen table, saying the same things over and over, so that by August the words began to rhyme with each other and sound strange.

An army post in peacetime is a dull place. Things happen, but then they happen over and over again.

They say a story loses something with each telling.

They say a story loses something with each telling. If that is the case, this story has lost nothing, for it's the first time it's been told.

It is what he regrets, what beats him up inside that makes him relive it over and over a thousand times a day.

She nodded, even though everyone knows that the first time, for anything, is rarely the last.

I told her of a letter Camille Pissarro once wrote to his son about Monet's dealers, who were insisting he exhibit only one kind of painting, the one that had become very popular with collectors. The collectors only wanted Sheaves. Pissarro wrote that he couldn't understand how Monet could subject himself to the demand that he repeat himself. He called it a terrible consequence of success.

May the best of the past be the worst of the future." Keep everything always off balance. No boundaries. No repetition. The opposite of what the Rebbe wants. The Rebbe seeks fixed boundaries, perfect balance, eternal repetition. Asher Lev caught between the two.

We reshape the story even when we believe we are simply repeating it.

The worst thing about sleepless nights was the feeling of running in a hamster cage, at least mentally. The same thoughts, over and over . . .

If you listen to the first, second, and third chorus of a song, they don't sound the same. It's the same melody and all that, but what really happens is that the energy changes. It's all about getting the listener to keep his or her concentration.

I stand by 'I'm not going to do 'The Office' again.' That would be weird: all the same people sitting at the same desks at a paper merchant's in Slough.

I'm not saying there's not talent in heavy metal and rap, but a lot of people are finding it's just the same thing, over and over.

I'm looking forward to playing Michael Bluth many, many more times.

It's hard to find that perfect dress that makes you feel like a million bucks. I've found a few, and I wish I could wear them over and over and over again on red carpets.

I feel as if I've been to Miami a million times because I do so many cruises out of Miami.

People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.'

All the big loud housey songs came from the idea of 'I want to create the same song over and over again.' Except that I've created each one in a different location, or a different mindset.

As far as practice, I get those mental reps. I don't have to physically be out there. It's just a mindset and a mentality.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

Alles ist jeden Tag tagtäglich eine Wiederholung von Wiederholungen.

Correction of the correction of the correction of the correction.

for everyone says something repeatedly and is misunderstood, this is the only point where everybody understands everybody else, he said, I thought. One

Cuando me acuesto, no tengo otro deseo que morir, no despertarme más, pero entonces me despierto otra vez y ese espantoso proceso se repite, se repite en definitiva durante cincuenta años, según él. Si pensamos que, durante cincuenta años, no hemos deseado otra cosa que estar muertos, y que seguimos viviendo aún y no podemos cambiar nada, porque somos totalmente inconsecuentes, según él. Porque somos la miseria misma, la bajeza misma.