Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South Copy Share Image
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry. — David Foster Wallace 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
A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Tedium … To suffer without suffering, to want without desire, to think without reason … It’s like being possessed by a negative demon,” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at… — Tobsha Learner 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
If kids aren't allowed to experience monotony and tedium, it's unlikely they will value the times they are entertained. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
“ ...from Tedium to Apathy and back; about five days each way. It makes an occasional trip to Monotony, and once it… — Thomas Heggen Copy Share Image
That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women… — George Jung 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
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories… — Colin Firth 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
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
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
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
Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
“But it seems to Samuel that all the school is preparing them for is to sit quietly and fake that they're working.… — Nathan Hill, The Nix 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
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
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
God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
