Quotes about Monotonous

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. Votes: 4

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. Votes: 4

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. Votes: 4

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. Votes: 4

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! Votes: 4

Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too. Votes: 4

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 be, it is paradise. There is no other. Votes: 4

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,. Votes: 4

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 had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains. Votes: 4

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous. Votes: 3

Monotonous and thankless as her job can be sometimes, she cheers at the thought of her coworkers - a dozen of them crammed into their little offices in the basement - all cleverly disguised as harmless geeks, all capable of saving the world if called upon. Votes: 3

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others. Votes: 2

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. Votes: 2

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. Votes: 2

I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy. Votes: 2

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous. Votes: 2

I'm very ADD when it comes to working out. I have to keep it interesting for myself or it just gets quite monotonous. Votes: 2

Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations. Votes: 2

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. Votes: 2

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 giving. Votes: 2

One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head. Votes: 2

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around. Votes: 2

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity. Votes: 2

so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again... Votes: 2

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 internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience. Votes: 2

This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy. Votes: 2

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull. Votes: 2

It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me. Votes: 2

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased. Votes: 2

If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous. Votes: 2

A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look. Votes: 2

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. Votes: 2

My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.' Votes: 2

I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and the gym can be super monotonous, so I just get outside and try to make it fun so my body doesn't get bored. Votes: 2

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things. Votes: 2

... the monotonous beauty of wealth. Votes: 0

The future is a monotonous instrument Votes: 0

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous. Votes: 0

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison. Votes: 0

Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting. Votes: 0

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible ... Votes: 0

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision? Votes: 0

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event... Votes: 0

An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity. Votes: 0

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Votes: 0

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience. Votes: 0

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous. Votes: 0

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted. Votes: 0

[First line] "The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous. Votes: 0

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality. Votes: 0

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil. Votes: 0

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. Votes: 0

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety. Votes: 0

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. Votes: 0

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone. Votes: 0

Planning stuff out sucks. If you plan stuff out, you wind up talking in a very monotonous, unnatural way. Votes: 0

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people. Votes: 0

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult. Votes: 0

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired. Votes: 0

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. Votes: 0

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. Votes: 0

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization. Votes: 0

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike. Votes: 0

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice... Votes: 0

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication] Votes: 0

Going to the trial was very tiring for me, but I did enjoy it better than sitting in a jail cell. That could be very monotonous. Votes: 0

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous. Votes: 0

London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion. Votes: 0

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself. Votes: 0

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing. Votes: 0

But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty. Votes: 0

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever. Votes: 0

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid. Votes: 0

What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous. Votes: 0

I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace. Votes: 0

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning. Votes: 0

Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony Votes: 0

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 art than that of the artist. Votes: 0

Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire. Votes: 0

Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations. Votes: 0

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance. Votes: 0

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again. Votes: 0

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines. Votes: 0

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition. Votes: 0

I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train. Votes: 0

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous. Votes: 0

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. Votes: 0