Tedious Quotes
201 quotes by 168 authors
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When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has…
— Ivan Goncharov
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It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to…
— Frank Rich
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Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over…
— Tillie Olsen
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Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
— Thomas Keneally
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Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool…
— Silvanus P. Thompson
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You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize…
— Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never…
— Dan Kieran
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I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his…
— Bill Bryson
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There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;…
— William Shakespeare
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If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you…
— Laozi
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I don't like programming. It's tedious.
— Rasmus Lerdorf
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
— Bill Bailey
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Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.
— William Wordsworth
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Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the…
— Augustus Pitt Rivers
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.
— Brad Garrett
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The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert.…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack…
— Alain de Botton
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