International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions -… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Copy Share Image
Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
“Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of days, and getting up would go on with the same sad dreams. I… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South Copy Share Image
