Tedious Quotes

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

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 it.

Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and tedious process.

The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

Shooting a movie can be so tedious. You're trying to get 20 different angles on the same swing. You never get into a rhythm. But I took it very seriously.

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.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.

The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.