Quotes About Repetition

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.

si las locuras se repiten en la familia, debe ser que existe una memoria genética que impide que se pierdan en el olvido.

In the Led Zeppelin shows of the Sixties and Seventies, it was the same numbers every night, but they were constantly in a state of flux. If I played something good, really substantial, I'd stick it in again.

A typical TV show is always about protecting the franchise - it's all about stretching it out as long as you can take it. And it's about taking the characters in any given hour as far as you can take them, but then resetting them more or less back to zero so at the beginning of the next week, so they're still the character you know and love.

I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times.

There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.

I must have seen the 'Twlight Zone' movie, like, a thousand times.

The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it.

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.

A town that has no ceiling price, A town of double-talk; A town so big men name her twice, Like so: 'N'Yawk, N'Yawk.'

The echo of a platitude.

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.)

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.