Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
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
“ ...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
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with… — Saul Bellow 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
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
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
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“tedium is the worst pain. the mind lays out the world in blocks, and the hushed blood waits for revenge. all order,… — John Champlin Gardner Jr 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
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
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets,… — Sinclair Lewis 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
“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
I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium… — Donald C. Peattie 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
“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
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
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
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
Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to… — Jay H. Lehr Copy Share Image
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
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
“Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad...How right you are, it's… — Marcel Proust 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
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
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
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