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
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
Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most… — Alan Watts 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
“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
We all try to camouflage the monotony. But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time.… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
“But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.” — Daisy Goodwin 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
Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. — Peter O'Toole 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
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,… — Paul Theroux 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
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
Le charme de la nouveaute , peu a' peu tombant comme un ve" t ement, laissait voir a' nu l'e ternelle monotonie… — Gustave Flaubert 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
“Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, which was efficient but also a highly controlling device. There was a problem with the assembly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller 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
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
