Quotes About Monotony

There is a kind of dreary monotony about there characters, an American sameness about them that never varies and is always dull.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

The humiliation of being in a poor play, of playing a shabby role, of appearing before disgruntled audiences, if any, of being curdled by hostile reviews, can outrage all human dignity. Being caught in a long-run success is almost as bad. The fearful monotony, the boredom of saying the same words every night, at the same minute, has unhinged the mind of more than one actress.

Days dragged on in this town like they were getting paid by the minute.

Everyone is folding boxes. Andrew is folding boxes. If the entire job were to fold boxes people would scream. They would fold, and sometimes scream, existentially, then be dragged into a field and beaten into a paste. Sometimes there would be a killing rampage.

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

They have parallel-parked their bimbo boxes in identical computer-designed Burbclave street patterns and secreted themselves in symmetrical sheetrock shitholes with vinyl floors and ill-fitting woodwork and no sidewalks, vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture.

Talking to a black-and-white on the Street is like talking to a person who has his face stuck in a xerox machine, repeatedly pounding the copy button, while you stand by the output tray pulling the sheets out one at a time and looking at them.

Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy.

They have parallel-parked their bimbo boxes in identical computer-designed Burbclave street patterns and secreted themselves in symmetrical sheetrock shitholes with vinyl floors and ill-fitting woodwork and no sidewalks, vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture. The

You have an agreeably uninteresting existence. Let's see if we can change that.

everything looks the same in America, there are no transitions now).

Thoreau's philosophy: If you read about one train wreck, you've read about them all.