People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
“Empires rose and fell, and still the speaker droned on in his cicada-like monotony...” — John Green Copy Share Image
I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else. — Santigold Copy Share Image
Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of… — Annie French Hector Copy Share Image
“My tendency to get kind of bored quickly and not just accepting the monotony of the status quo, the continual monotony of… — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
Once, this had been the life I’d wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn’t believe that there had been a time when… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“...monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no… — Flower A. Newhouse Copy Share Image
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
A dancer must have tremendous personality. A God like Christ and even a godman like Rajneesh had some personality. Combination of talent,… — Yamini Krishnamurthy Copy Share Image
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To… — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
“After logging into his computer and taking a few sips of coffee, Brian began his workday the way he always did: by… — Douglas Hackle Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
“That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after… — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“ ...from Tedium to Apathy and back; about five days each way. It makes an occasional trip to Monotony, and once it… — Thomas Heggen Copy Share Image
There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“You are the remedy of intensity i need in my life, to spin me out of the miserable monotony of working on… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“But the trouble is there aren't any bends in my road. I can see it stretching straight out before me to the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Emma was just like any other mistress; and the charm of novelty, falling down slowly like a dress, exposed only the eternal… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless… — Gavin Pretor-Pinney Copy Share Image
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing… — Kajal Aggarwal Copy Share Image
Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from… — Luisa Valenzuela Copy Share Image
If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
