Routine Quotes - Page 9

• In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mind, Alchemist, Prejudice

  "The Abyss". Book by Marguerite Yourcenar, Author's note, p. 367, 1968.

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• I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.

  Paul Rudd

  Funny, Silly, Party

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• Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

  Bill Burr

  Acting, Comedy, Sitcom

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

  Ross Parsley

  Opportunity, Imagination, Gathering

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• My son is my routine and priority, period!

  Cory Hardrict

  Son, Priorities, Periods

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• Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Thinking, Spirit, Spontaneity

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn't hesitate to use every possible maneuver to get what it wants, sometimes destroying businesses -- and lives -- in the process.

  James Bovard

  Running, Mistake, Book

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• Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

  Gilbert Highet

  Wind, Water, Stupidity

  Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated

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• With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

  Bruce Lee

  Adversity, Blessing, Reminders

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, Tuttle Publishing

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• We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

  Walter Pater

  Routine Work, Years, Desire

  Walter Pater (2006). “Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Large Edition”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.

  Chinua Achebe

  Believe, Writing, Artist

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• Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.' A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers.

  Laura Riding

  Names, Ideas, Two

  "Poetry and Politics". "The Common Asphodel". Book by Robert Graves, 1949.

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• Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Letting Go, Character, Finding Yourself

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Home, Adventure, Men

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• It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Looks, Purpose, Void

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• I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.

  Arjun Rampal

  Memories, Weight, Body

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• The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to rappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Rap, Imagination, Feelings

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2016). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1681, eBookIt.com

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• I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition.

  David Wright

  Games, Game Day, Superstitions

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on.

  Donald Barthelme

  Intelligent, Garden, Agony

  Donald Barthelme (2008). “Flying to America: 45 More Stories”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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• I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cooking, Meals, Three

  1949 Diary entry,13 Nov. Collected in Aurelia Schober Plath (ed) Letters Home by Sylvia Plath,'Diary Supplement' (1949).

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• I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.

  Anita Brookner

  Lonely, Passion, Animal

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• Consistency is the horror of the world.

  Brenda Ueland

  Consistency, World, Horror

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Revolution, Violent, Hollow

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.37, Ardent Media

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• The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will.

  Matthew Arnold

  Science, Men, Names

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• But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.

  William Osler

  Men, Doctors, Tragedy

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.49, ACP Press

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