So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Perhaps boredom was an irrelevant concept for a life as monotonous as hers.” — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a… — Antoinette Perry Copy Share Image
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all… — Cole Sprouse 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
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
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
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
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
“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
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
Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
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
the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled.… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Your least frequent, most extreme exertions will have the greatest influence on your fitness. The peak moments of a workout count far… — Arthur De Vany Copy Share Image
