X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Tedious" (159)

Page 2 of 7
Filter & Style
Image
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
Victor Hugo
Image
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
Image
For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.
David Berman
Image
Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.
Dennis Miller
Image
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
Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
Seneca the Younger
Image
If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really--to keep looking at the world in the right way.
John Cusack
Image
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
John Vanbrugh
Image
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
Uta Hagen
Image
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.
Honore de Balzac
Image
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
Image
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.
Robert Hughes
Image
Most screen violence is tedious.
Nick Cave
Image
What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!
William Shakespeare
Image
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
Charles Lamb
Image
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.
William James
Image
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.
Eric Drooker
Image
Luck is only my lover, not my wife, replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence. Tedious bedfellows, said Sergi.
Kate Elliott
Image
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks, thereby freeing humans from having to perform these tedious yet vital tasks.
Dave Barry
Image
I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.
Nick Earls
Image
Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.
David O. Russell
Image
It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
Norm MacDonald
Previous
Next