#tedious

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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#forced #help #life #long #long life

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. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#after #being #end #going #good

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#race #tedious #tend

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

— William Shakespeare

#dull #ear #life #man #tale

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

— Fiona Shaw

#find #hate #i #incredibly #itself

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

#curious #expressive #i #me #never

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. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#calm #cheer #down #fetch #friend

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

— Thomas Aquinas

#become #even #friends #friendship #greatest

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#boring #boring things #difficult #interesting #interesting things

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. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#audit #because #cast #certify #comprehensive