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There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. ...

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

Monotony reveals our limitations.

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

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

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

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

But could it be little me you was hecklin me Now it's monotony winnin regularly

I love challenges, as it breaks the monotony and takes me out of my comfort zone.

I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters.

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

As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony.

I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.

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

Get out there, even if it's a hike or something, just break up the monotony of going to the gym.

Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.

I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.

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

I am not the one for monotony. I am all for chances and its every medium, every genre that I want to explore.

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.

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.

When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.

Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

Trucking-company terminals are places where paperwork gets filled out, driving orders are given, and partners are assigned. They can often be social hubs for drivers, breaking up the monotony and solitude they face on the road.

The suits are as similar as uniforms, and yet you can tell their individual qualities by how they respond to movement - the good ones ripple like wheat in a field and provide not a show of monotony but rather a spectacle of plenty.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.

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.

I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.

To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band work, and sprints. Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.

For my parents, leaving the close social quarters of Abilene was like getting out of jail. They were not true West Texans; they had not come to love the unending monotony of mesquite barrens or the high, hot blue sky that made sunsets a matter of prayerful thankfulness.

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the strip club, 'poppin' bottles' and how many girls they can 'tap,' it distorts what kids are learning. I think if there was more of a female presence in hip hop we could break up the monotony. It's all about balance.

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

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