Quotes About Repetition

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes–and six months later you have to start all over again.

I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by God she does it and does it and does it, over and over and over again. She is the protagonist of a Love Story.

Es mentira que nunca te he mentido, es mentira que no te mienta más; es mentira que un bulo repetido merezca ser verdad.

Tomorrow came, and it was much like yesterday. Just more so.

I am increasingly convinced of a slippage, an unremarked analytical gray zone, between what we who devote ourselves to discerning the machinations of colonial practice think we know about those practices and how we imagine they manifest now. Embarking on a tracking of these occlusive processes with an expectation of a repetition of earlier colonial policies is a misguided task.

Sylvie had read somewhere that the more times a story was told, the less accurate it became. Humans were prone to exaggeration; they leaned away from the parts of the narrative they found boring and leaned into the exciting spots. Details and timelines changed over years of repetition. The story became more myth and less true. Sylvie thought about how she and William rarely told their story and felt pleased; by not being shared, their love story remained intact.

What if the next chapter was the same as this chapter, as had been the last chapter? What if all chapters stayed the same or even, as time went on, got worse?

Arroo!" I am here. "Arroo!" I am here. I am here. I am here. Alone.

Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days.

M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over again or else lie so I lie I just lie who are they who are the storytellers who can put an end to stories

After all why study the past? Because you may wish to repeat it.

the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

ese nombre que es más que deseo, que se ha convertido ya en posesión a fuerza de haberlo repetido mil veces.

So we have school after school, philosophy after philosophy, each one showing an aspect of truth, and ignoring, or even denying, the other aspects which are equally true. Nor is this all; as the age in which we are passes on from century to century, from millennium to millennium, knowledge becomes dimmer, spiritual insight becomes rarer, those who repeat far out-number those who know;

Once a guy has taken out his dick, you think he is going to do it every time.

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.

Arcade-game characters have no free will. They're programmed to do one thing day in and day out - they don't have a choice in the matter.

There's a lot of brilliant comics who are amazing, but you can see them doing the same 20 minutes that they were doing five years ago, verbatim. I think that doesn't lend itself to progressing.

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

I want to work on projects that I feel passionate about and do things that are fun and challenging. I would love to do a live musical. I'm not interested in doing the same thing over and over or the fame and exposure that comes with it. When people keep doing that, they just end up doing the same dumb stuff again and again.

I don't like when people put their dishes in the dishwasher without scrubbing them properly because it comes out with those little white dots and then you can't get those out. And you have to rewash them.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

If you get out back-to-back in T20s, it proves costly.