I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known? — George Eliot 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
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony. — Divyanka Tripathi Copy Share Image
“The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. — Jonathan Raban 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
When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility… — Dean Karnazes 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
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 has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses.… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought… — John Green Copy Share Image
What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“All art is, indeed, a monotony in external things for the sake of an interior variety, a sacrifice of gross effects to… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“She seems so depressed sometimes by the monotony and boredom of her city life, I thought maybe in this endless grass and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives… — Ivor Novello 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
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Were in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of… — Robert M Pirsig Copy Share Image
But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had… — Jacqueline Kelly Copy Share Image
“and now i am back in the grey world where it tastes like plastic, the monotony is buzzing through my jaws and… — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui — these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
