Tedious Quotes - Page 8

• When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Giving, Needs

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• Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.

  Jack Edmonds

  Running, Thinking, Interesting

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• Building cultures of peace is long-haul work, undramatic and unheralded, and often infinitely tedious, and most of the people doing it probably don't even think of themselves as practitioners of nonviolence. Maybe it's time they did.

  Carol Lee Flinders

  Thinking, Long, People

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• My life is like a faded leaf,
  My harvest dwindled to a husk:
  Truly my life is void and brief
  And tedious in the barren dusk;
  My life is like a frozen thing,
  No bud nor greenness can I see:
  Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring;
  O Jesus, rise in me.

  Christina Rossetti

  Jesus, Spring, Life Is Like

  Christina Rossetti, C.H. Sisson (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.64, Routledge

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• 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.

  Mu Xin

  Two, Would Be, Three

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Eye, Men, Long

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• 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.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Patterns, Biographies, Life Is

  Theodore Dalrymple (2003). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass”, p.163, Ivan R. Dee

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

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Thinking, Admiration

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.66, HarperCollins UK

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• I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.

  Terry Riley

  Fun, Writing, Play

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• I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.

  Peter Carey

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Long, Way To Live, Aging

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• What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Waste, Wasting Time

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.152

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• Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in, you're just in tech forever, and I can't stand being on a film set. It's really tedious.

  Tony Kushner

  Forever, Firsts, Film

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I've even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You're waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn't need to be there.

  Drea de Matteo

  Son, Thinking, Funeral

  Source: collider.com

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• I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious. I got bored and grew restless. I had no other plan for a job, because from seventh grade on, I had planned on law. So I shifted my focus from classes to extracurricular activities.

  Demetri Martin

  Jobs, School, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I definitely use "smiling while rapping" as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording. At times it can get tedious and stressful when it's not sounding the way you heard it in your head, but you've got to remember to just smile and appreciate the fact that you're even in the booth and there are people who want to hear your art.

  Macklemore

  Art, Fun, Rap

  "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

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• However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones

  John Quincy Adams

  Love Is, Voice, Self

  John Quincy Adams (1810). “Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University”, p.102

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• I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.

  Terry McMillan

  Reading, Three, Four

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• The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Gay, Tone, Brilliant

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• nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

  Ouida

  Wit, Trifles, Bores

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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• Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

  Honore de Balzac

  Admiration

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• I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

  Martin Luther

  Long, Preacher, Preaching

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.238

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• You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Giving, Hours

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.176

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

  John Dryden

  Sight, Decay, Woe

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1745, Delphi Classics

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

  Agatha Christie

  Retirement, Imagine, Monotony

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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