#monotony

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#ants #certainties #chained #clinging #like

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#creativity #life #love #monotony #passion

But when first the two black dragons sprang out of the fog upon the small clerk, they had merely the effect of all miracles – they changed the universe. He discovered the fact that all romantics know – that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the cord of monotony is stretched most tight, it it breaks with a sound like song. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#miracles #monotony #romantics #change

Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building. ↗

— Anita Nair

#monotony #professions #significance #writing #life

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#begin #bicycles #brothers #business #caves

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! ↗

— Coco Chanel

#leaves #love #monotony #other #time

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. ↗

— Irving Wallace

#every #every man #excitement #man #monotony

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#breaks #change #cinema #evening #gives

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#common man #i #man #monotony #sands

It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed - the way she spoke, her clothes, the topics she chose to talk about, her opinions - they were all the same as before. Their relationship was like a pendulum gradually grinding to a halt, and he felt out of synch. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #monotony #relationship #change