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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations. -- Bernard Cornwell
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care. -- Mark Haddon
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. -- Joseph de Maistre
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. -- Carl Sagan
Eating vegetarian doesn't mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes. -- Marcus Samuelsson
it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum. -- Dorothea Brande
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. -- Christopher Isherwood
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm just a tiny person from a humdrum neighbourhood, so I grew up worshipping 'Bond' pictures and dreaming of a life bigger than my own. -- McG
How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions. -- Nina Berberova
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life. -- William Osler
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies. -- Gunilla Brodde Norris
In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives. -- Stephen King
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity. -- D.T. Suzuki
We're not just any star stuff, most of which is humdrum hydrogen and listless helium. Our bodies include fancier ingredients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and a few other herbs and spices. -- Seth Shostak
I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me. -- Ian Frazier
I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself. -- Suzanne Farrell
There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead. -- Anne Rice
In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life. -- Alison Owen
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist. -- Aldous Huxley
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else. -- Anna Quindlen
Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable. -- Chuck Palahniuk
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that. -- Carl Sagan
What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity. -- Spencer W. Kimball
Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing. -- Caitlin Thomas
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating -- Mark Haddon
There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead. -- Anthon St. Maarten
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum -- Dean Cavanagh
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. -- Graham Greene
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. -- Graham Greene
People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine. -- Daphne du Maurier
God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful. -- Robert Pierce
It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it. -- Colson Whitehead
We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy." -- Carl Sagan
What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity. -- Russell Brand
No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country. -- Art Buchwald

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