The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein 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 love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else. — Santigold Copy Share Image
“Empires rose and fell, and still the speaker droned on in his cicada-like monotony...” — John Green Copy Share Image
If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period… — Amy Seimetz Copy Share Image
“I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.” — Daisy Goodwin 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
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
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
“Children Katy's age had no problem with monotony. In fact they embraced it, diving into it and wrapping the familiar words round… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
It's a lonely road for those of us who choose to be remarkable, and the path of convention can sometimes be appealing.… — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
“The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring. Would they… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
“It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time… Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that… — Stijn Streuvels Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all… — can't remember Copy Share Image
On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Copy Share Image
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows… — Honore de Balzac 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
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
“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
“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
“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
