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Quotes About Monotony

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.
~ Katherine Dunn
alla fine prevaleva quel piatto e anestetizzante trascorrere del tempo, che non accendeva l'entusiasmo ma neppure infliggeva sofferenza.
~ Pino Cacucci
That was the trouble with war. Leave out the toil, discipline, discomfort, scant sleep, lousy food, monotony, and combat, and war would be a fine institution.
~ Poul Anderson
Un cristiano, un asceta, pueden reprobar esos deseos de lujo, pero, en realidad, tales bagatelas son precisamente las que rompen la monotonía de la existencia y la hacen agradable. ¿La vida valdría la pena de ser vivida, con todas sus inevitables tristezas, si el hombre no pudiera, fuera del trabajo, procurarse un solo placer de acuerdo con sus gustos individuales?
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
~ Marina Abramovic
No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.
~ Heston Blumenthal
So many of us live our lives on autopilot. We wake up, go to work, have dinner, go to sleep... repeat.
~ Jesse Itzler
Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
~ John Slattery
I like technology, but the blockbuster games use it for the same thing over and over again.
~ Jenova Chen
Learning lines is bloody boring.
~ Lesley Sharp
Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
~ Barry Sheene
Day by day, I'm kind of a bore.
~ Mary Roach
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.
~ Anna Popplewell
I suppose that I'm easily bored.
~ Kevin Macdonald
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
~ Guy Debord
I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind.
~ Peter Steele
It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.
~ Jennifer Aniston
There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
People's lives are boring.
~ Jimmy Kimmel
Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
What brings people down is the same thing over and over.
~ Meg Ryan