Monotonous Quotes

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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may… — Jean Baudrillard
Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want… — John Dos Passos
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. — B. C. Forbes
The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike. — Alexis de Tocqueville
[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly… — Jacob Bronowski
Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and… — Warren G. Bennis
Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting. — Veikko Karvonen
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't… — Stanley Kunitz
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks… — Gaston Bachelard
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life… — Mahatma Gandhi
Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games… — John Fowles
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event... — Maxim Gorky
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can… — Lionel Terray
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or… — William H. Gass
Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound… — Friedrich Schiller
It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who… — Pierre Loti
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence… — Thomas Boswell

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