Monotony Quotes

103 Monotony quotes by 86 unique authors

I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember;… — Stijn Streuvels
Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow… — Herodotus
How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together? — Greg Bryk
Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony. — Joshua Reynolds
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility… — Jerry Saltz
Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest… — Norman Vincent Peale
Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like… — William Wordsworth
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from… — Freeman Dyson
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you… — Joshua Foer
The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the strip club, 'poppin'… — Queen Latifah
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from… — Ivor Novello
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. — Peter O'Toole
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. — Edith Wharton
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it… — Patti Smith
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in… — John Green
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a… — Oscar Wilde
Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. — Barbara Kingsolver
...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. — Edith Wharton
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done… — Jacqueline Kelly
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle,… — Richard Matheson
We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness,… — Robert M. Pirsig
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have… — Milan Kundera

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