Tedious Quotes

I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.

What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.

When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.

Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

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.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

I automate some tasks and delegate many others. Doing research, job organization, data processing, field surveys, and plan preparation can be tedious, detailed work.

Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.

Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.

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.

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.

Most screen violence is tedious.

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.

I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

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

My backstory is so tedious. I hope the interviews are turning a corner now.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

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.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.

You are a tedious fool.

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

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!

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

Whatever is difficult can be done with regular attention and actions. Stay focused.

...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.