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- I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few… — Steven Chu
- Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary,… — Philip Guedalla
- Tedium is the bane of immortality. — Neil Lowe
- International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even… — Danny Baker
- One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and… — Michael Ende
- Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. — Lance Loud
- 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
- The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens
- 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
- I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company. — Fernando Pessoa
- Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South
- (About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama. — Anne Tyler