Tedious Quotes - Page 10

• It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

  Maya Angelou

  Book, Writing, Recipes

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• Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

  Peter Shaffer

  Race, Librarian

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• In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Night, Fire

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 40

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• One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

  Ben Jonson

  Women, Character, Trouble

  Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.409, Oxford : Oxford University Press

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• Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Grief, Passion, Men

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Boredom, Speech, Insipid

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Blessing, Giving

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• Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

  Bill Vaughan

  Patience, Men, Details

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• A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

  William Allingham

  Book, Men, Hands

  William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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• Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.

  William Blake

  Sky, Roots, Tree

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.122, Pearson Education

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• Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

  Anna Quindlen

  Summer, Distance, Lying

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.25, Random House

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• Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Bores, Reserves

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

  Uta Hagen

  Research, Inspired, Moments

  Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.117, John Wiley & Sons

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• When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Book, History

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• I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing.

  Michael Gira

  Philosophy, Reading, School

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• Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy

  Will Shortz

  Trying, Enjoy, Always Be Happy

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• The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Errors, Excess

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.264, Penguin

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• What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially burdersome, even if it is marked by material influence and technical progress. The person without hope finds himself in an existential difficulty: For what enduring purpose am I clinging to this life that I love and do not want to lose?

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Hope, Father, Giving

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• The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Theology, Discourse, Subjects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.305, Harvard University Press

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• Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Rearing A Child, Child Rearing

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.

  Thomas Campion

  Summer, Wine, Winter

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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

  Mark Strand

  Thinking, Self, Expression

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• What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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• Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

  Arthur Helps

  Time, Play, Long

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Companions of My Solitude”, p.239

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• I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

  Fiona Shaw

  Hate, Conservative, Murder

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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