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
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales.… — Anita Nair Copy Share Image
Hardship in daily & routine life may hurt you but monotony will kill you. I can & I will is the moment… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out"… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the… — Graham Swift 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
“Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go… God must be sought and found… — Karl Edward Wagner Copy Share Image
The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
“It is not that the noble nature loves monotony, any more than it loves darkness or pain. But it can bear with… — John Ruskin 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
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
“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
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
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
If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if… — Amy Carmichael 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
monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing… — Kajal Aggarwal Copy Share Image
It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“It’s hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who’s a stranger to him. But then again, we are… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
My mother taught me this trick: if you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning, for example homework homework… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
