Tedious Quotes

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

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.

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

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 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.

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

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.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

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.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.