Quotes About Monotony

When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.

When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

I had been on the TV show 'Eight is Enough' for four years. Working on a show like that is like working in a factory.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

I had discovered early at Ellis that a hospital nurse performs the same tasks day after day after day, and that an odd solace can be found in the monotony of those duties. Were it not for the steady thrum of the routine, the spectacle of unending human suffering would be a hospital nurse's undoing.

Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.

I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

When you're playing someone who drinks a lot, it's not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you're going to get from it. It's like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab.

I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.

It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.

When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

I don't know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.

I had neglected to provide myself with books, and as we crept along at the dull rate of four miles per hour, I soon felt the foul fiend Ennui coming upon me

You're confusing boredom with obsession.

I'm sure that absolute correctness must seem a dull existence to you, but I know no other way to be

Probably chicken again. He's sick of chicken.

With nothing to really aspire to, life had become about maintenance. Eternal maintenance.

C'est l'Ennui! —l'Å"il chargé d'un pleur involontaire, Il rêve d'échafauds en fumant son houka. Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat, —Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!