Tedious Quotes · Page 3

'Barsaat' was a wonderful experience, but it took a long time in the making, and that got very tedious.

— Twinkle Khanna

My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

— William Shakespeare

Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

— Baal Shem Tov

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it…

— Sanaa Lathan

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

— Anatole France

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

— Seneca the Younger

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

— Norm MacDonald

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

— Hugh Grant

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

— Hugh Mackay

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived…

— Nick Earls

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends…

— Harry S. Truman

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

— Dennis Miller

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores…

— Charles Lamb

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as…

— Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than…

— Hannah More

Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.

— Mike Davidson

One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national…

— Brad Alan Lewis

Building cultures of peace is long-haul work, undramatic and unheralded, and often infinitely tedious, and most of the people doing it probably…

— Carol Lee Flinders

Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or…

— Isabella Rossellini

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made…

— Albert Brooks

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after…

— Adam Smith

Alan Menken took me to his studio and we went through his trunks of songs and put together an album of stuff…

— Adam Jacobs

I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd…

— Terry Riley

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone…

— Megan Abbott

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

— Agatha Christie

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

— Charlie Hunnam

“And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life.”

— Anton Chekhov

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

— Victor Hugo

“Do you take anything seriously?” “Not if I can help it. Makes life so tedious.”

— Leigh Bardugo

I think the relentless tide of celebrity stuff on the telly is getting pretty tedious.

— Chris Tarrant

“Whatever is difficult can be done with regular attention and actions. Stay focused.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The tedious never die; that's what makes them tedious.”

— Gregory Maguire

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

— Oscar Wilde

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

— Jeremy Irons

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

— John Milton

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

— Paul Auster

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

— Agatha Christie