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  • I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

    Queens   Lying   Taken  
    Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK
  • I've been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I've even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You're waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn't need to be there.

    Son   Thinking   Funeral  
    Source: collider.com
  • Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

    Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.314, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

    Art   Facts   Form  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

  • Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

    Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books
  • What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.

    Jobs   Past   People  
    Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.48, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.

    Crush   Gratitude   Lying  
    "Will David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Be the Most Boring Book Ever?" by Lane Brown, www.vulture.com. March 3, 2009.
  • Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

    Life   Tasks   Useless  
    James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Cream of the Jest: The Lineage of Lichfield, Two Comedies of Evasion”
  • It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

    Book   Writing   Recipes  
  • For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

    British Medical Journal 2: 502 (1958)
  • That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

    "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.
  • My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

    Brain   Enemy   Spiders  
    William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.547
  • Some days are good; some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.

    Bed   Get Up   Exciting  
  • It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.

    Giving   Cry   Reason  
  • It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

    People   Luck   Enemy  
    LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)
  • I am inspired by the professionalism of others. I believe there is an obligation to strive for excellence in what one is asked to do. No pains are too great, no revisions too tedious no matter how small the result. But I also believe that while humility should not be overdone, excellence should never be taken for granted, otherwise we stop reaching for it.

  • We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

    Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.439
  • I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this--love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.

    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.250, Editora Landmark LTDA
  • Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

    Valuable   Tedious   Ifs  
    Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.82, Pan Macmillan
  • Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

    Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.28, Prestwick House Inc
  • Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in, you're just in tech forever, and I can't stand being on a film set. It's really tedious.

    Forever   Firsts   Film  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.

    "Mathematical Circles Adieu". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1977.
  • Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

  • Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

    Patience   Men   Details  
  • When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

    Lying   Book   History  
  • All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

    Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.117, John Wiley & Sons
  • I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.

    Thinking   Views   Track  
    Source: www.avclub.com
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