Tedious Quotes · Page 2

Most screen violence is tedious.

— Nick Cave

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

— Johnny Knoxville

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

— Anonymous

My backstory is so tedious.

— Ray LaMontagne

“The result will be something unutterably tedious.”

— George Gissing

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

— Uta Hagen

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

— John Webster

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

— William Shakespeare

“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”

— Virgil

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

— Mike May

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

— Ben Jonson

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

— Oscar Wilde

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety.

— Margery Sharp

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

— Charles Lamb

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions…

— Terry McMillan

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we…

— John McGahern

“it’s hard to imagine a more tedious approach, practically guaranteed to deaden the enthusiasm of 12-year-olds.”

— James Crawford

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip;…

— Lord Chesterfield

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

I didn't take a lot of the videos seriously; making videos was one of the most tedious things that you can imagine.

— Roger Taylor

What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times!…

— William Shakespeare

In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for…

— Craig Brown

I definitely use "smiling while rapping" as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording. At times it…

— Macklemore

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able…

— William James

Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be…

— Michelle Sagara

The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be…

— Alexander Hamilton

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk.…

— Manfred von Richthofen

When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on,…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on…

— Anna Quindlen

This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more…

— Rod Serling

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than…

— Oscar Wilde

“The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun…

— Anna Kavan

When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.

— Hamilton Leithauser

Well, its tedious and the sex is dwindeling, so from what I've heard, yes!

— Samantha Jones

Holidays can become tedious without something to read.

— Ruskin Bond

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

— Homer

“I am in blood so deep that to wade no further is as tedious as to go over”

— William Shakespeare