Tedious Quotes

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

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.

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

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

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

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

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.

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

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

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.

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.

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.

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.