Tediousness Quotes & Sayings

The subtlety of your analysis of variance will not move readers to tears, although the tediousness of it might. — Paul J. Silvia

My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. — William Shakespeare

If I can survive death, I can probably survive anything. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness. — Ben Goldacre

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. — John Ruskin

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers. — Scott Turow

Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty. — Philip Yancey

Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness. — Ingmar Bergman

If you admit you need people, you can lose them.' Her gaze sharpens, returning to the present. 'But needing people can save your life. — Amy Ewing

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it. — John L. Phillips

A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions. — Philip Sidney

When you are loving and kind you are always happy. — Debasish Mridha

I've been playing since I was eight years old. — Brian McBride

The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works ... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified. — Pope Benedict XVI

Ometimes discipline is the truest form of kindness. — Robin Sloan

Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, — William Shakespeare

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? — Roman Payne

The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people. The manual for a Toyota Camry, which only seats five, is four times as long. — P. J. O'Rourke

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life. — Tupac Shakur

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. — W. Somerset Maugham

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults. — Samuel Johnson

I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats. — Freya Stark

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy. — Robert Holden

Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity -- oh, the tediousness of it...Shouldn't he return to a life where he might slice his own importance, to where he might relinquish this overrated control over his own destiny and perhaps be subtracted from its determination altogether? He might even experience that greatest luxury of not noticing himself at all. — Kiran Desai

I'm not entirely sure there is a formula for this,' I say. But I wish there were. I would have followed it, plugging in all my data for x and all of Ethan's for y. And I would have worked out the results before involving my emotions, and I wouldn't feel as I feel now
like I've been dumped for real by an imaginary guy. — Erin McCahan

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness. — Ira Glass

Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor. This did not make him anything special, but at least he was good-natured. — William Styron

Lily stopped dead in the doorway to her room and then took a step back. Apollo cocked his head. It'd been a very long day full of trepidation mixed with tediousness and he'd used up all his patience. "If you leave, I'll follow you out and we'll have this discussion in the hallway where everyone can hear." She scowled ferociously at him, but came all the way in the room and shut the door. "What do you want to talk about?" "Us." "There's nothing to discuss." "Yes," he said patiently, "there is. — Elizabeth Hoyt