The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
During the mid-1980s, I felt my work was getting monotonous. I was shooting continuously, sometimes for 25, 30 films at a time. — Ranjeet Copy Share Image
“monotonous repetition of concepts that, by the same token; also reassure the faculty that nothing new is threatening their” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“This is our life now: slaving away in thankless, monotonous jobs and spending half our salaries on fattening food.” — Katrina Ramos Atienza Copy Share Image
No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization. — Robert Brustein Copy Share Image
Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people. — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Quarterback - it's a boring, monotonous position that revolves around consistency. — Josh Rosen Copy Share Image
When anything is easy, it becomes very monotonous for me. But, if I can find something that is really going to take… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning,… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Training can be monotonous, and it is hard work, but you never lose sight of why you are doing it. Every single… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy. — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life.” — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
The way of life becomes monotonous for the idle man who seeks no change, but the hard work has many alternatives. — Crosby Kwaw Copy Share Image
“Walking is so monotonous. Left, right, left, right, it’s also all so political.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“He remained convinced that romantic behaviour was basically monotonous and predictable and that therefore one could write a fairly straightforward formula that… — John Green Copy Share Image
One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
![“To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]” quote by Agatha Christie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cf4/agatha-christie-154_adventure_to-all-those-who-lead-monotonous-lives-i_2280455.jpg)
