Top 181 Monotonous Quotes & Sayings

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

I like to vary my workouts as doing just one thing gets monotonous and I get bored.

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.

I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.

What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

... the monotonous beauty of wealth.

It gets monotonous for an actor to repeat roles.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

As much as I love doing music, it can get monotonous sometimes.

Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.

Quarterback - it's a boring, monotonous position that revolves around consistency.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

Despite what people say about my major film roles, I'm not a dull or monotonous woman searching for self-identity.

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

I'm very ADD when it comes to working out. I have to keep it interesting for myself or it just gets quite monotonous.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

The future is a monotonous instrument

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

During the mid-1980s, I felt my work was getting monotonous. I was shooting continuously, sometimes for 25, 30 films at a time.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.

If critics find my songs monotonous, then I also find their opinion monotonous.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.