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I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics.… — Judith Orloff
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. — William Gaddis
Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as… — Kay Redfield Jamison
For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling… — Robin Hobb
Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make… — Nate Ruess
Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue. — Henry Adams
Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to… — Ambrose Bierce
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something… — Giles Andreae
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. — Bertrand Russell
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. — Plautus
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome. — Baron de Montesquieu
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man. — Arthur Eddington
On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas… — Walter Sickert
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our… — Robert Genn
It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome. — Gretchen Rubin
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. — Johann Gottfried Seume
I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism,… — James Anthony Froude
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias… — Jonathan Edwards
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished… — Arthur Helps
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous. — Maimonides
What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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