It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy — Will Shortz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mr. Herschel brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is. — Brad Garrett Copy Share Image
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to… — Mary Davys Copy Share Image
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful… — J. D. Sedding Copy Share Image
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather. — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
I automate some tasks and delegate many others. Doing research, job organization, data processing, field surveys, and plan preparation can be tedious,… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
