#monotony

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria. ↗

— Vance Packard

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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation. ↗

— Margaret Sackville

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

— Bela Lugosi

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

— Irving Wallace

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