“Most people were already living inside their own irritation.” — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
“The path that leads to triumph is long, tedious, and crooked.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“The crucible of our formation is in the monotony of our daily routines.” — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.” — George G. Williams Copy Share Image
We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet. — Kate Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony. — Noah Wyle Copy Share Image
“monotony kills the heart. Ironically, monotony is what keeps the heart working.” — soumeet lanka Copy Share Image
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Some people say I make mistakes. I just say that in fact this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony.… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“All art is, indeed, a monotony in external things for the sake of an interior variety, a sacrifice of gross effects to… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace In that broad trim that hides thy sober face? Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
Whenever you do a movie, it's a culture shock. Who is it? Where are you? What are you doing? Who are these… — William Atherton Copy Share Image
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Monotony One monotonous day follows another monotonous day, without change. The same things happen, then happen again. The same moments approach, then… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She’s not happy in her marriage. Not unhappy exactly, but not happy. He doesn’t want kids, so that’s nothing to look forward… — Phoef Sutton Copy Share Image
“Some people’s routines are so consistent, their shits are the same. Dammit, if you’ve been pooping the same smooth shits for a… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“167 It’s one of those days when the monotony of everything oppresses me like being thrown into jail. The monotony of everything… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“Die slowly He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never changes pace, who does… — Martha Medeiros Copy Share Image
