Tiresome Quotes - Page 5

• Tiresome heart, forever living and dying,
  House without air, I leave you and lock your door.
  Wild swans, come over the town, come over
  The town again, trailing your legs and crying!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Swans, Air

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.194, eBookIt.com

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• Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Crush, Heart, Past

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.634, e-artnow

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• This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.

  Fanny Burney

  Country, Time, Way

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• Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.

  Ridley Scott

  Strong, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

  George Will

  People, Political, Erotic

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• There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Desire, Doe

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• My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.

  Anna Friel

  Talking, Sides, Size

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.

  Sarah Paulson

  Running, Character, Successful

  Source: collider.com

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• It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.

  Christopher Logue

  Strong, Attention, Too Much

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• When you're caring with your head, there are the things that we talked about that seems boring in baseball. But when you care about your heart, exactly the boring things - a pitcher looking over to first, a batter stepping out and adjusting his gloves - those are just tiresome to the person who's interested. But to the person who's invested, it just makes everything all the more dramatic.

  Mike Pesca

  Baseball, Heart, Caring

  "This Week In Sports: Mets Enter World Series". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. October 25, 2015.

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• I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial.

  Jello Biafra

  Hate, Holiday, Rocks

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Even on the most tiresome of days, I need to give my daughter and husband one hundred percent of my energy. They deserve that love, and in the end, it only fuels my energy.

  Allison Holker

  Daughter, Husband, Giving

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But I also am a very sensitive person and have many heavier feelings. It can be tiresome after a while to only do comedy, especially after you grow as a person. It starts to feel like you're playing an older version of yourself.

  Jenny Slate

  Sensitive Person, People, Joy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Intelligent, Doe

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Light, Ideas

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• It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

  Plautus

  Speech, Way, Beats

  "Mercator". Play by Plautus, Act III, Scene 4,

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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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• Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Relief, Littles

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• If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible; I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.

  Garry Winogrand

  Song, Believe, Wind

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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