#tedium

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition. ↗

— Robert Plant

#get #gig #lost #own #repetition

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#bounded #definite #east #fiction #history

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#achieve #certain #confidence #costs #decided

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse. ↗

— George Combe

#course #discourse #discovered #evening #every

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. ↗

— Robert South

#greatly #lighten #nothing #prove #relieve

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium. ↗

— Émile Zola

#getting-old #tedium #youth #love

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#days #just #tedium #these #you

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. ↗

— Lance Loud

#experienced #happen #i #perhaps #something

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#difficult #done #every #every night #everyday