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Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi. -- Kate Elliott
I stuck on the lunchtime news. More riots. Tedious now. Depressing. You ever read Thucycdides? I'll boil him down for you in one easy moral: intergenerational war is a very bad thing. -- Adrian McKinty
I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention. -- Peter Carey
Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious. -- Johnny Knoxville
It's so tedious that everyone must be defined. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -- William Shakespeare
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. -- Alexander Pope
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. -- Thomas Aquinas
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. -- Paul Auster
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. -- James Russell Lowell
Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me. -- Hugh Mackay
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. -- Mark Strand
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp. -- Patch Adams
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. -- Maya Angelou
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. -- Samuel Johnson
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. -- Charles Baudelaire
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. -- Pierre Trudeau
With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can't get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It's an incredibly tedious process. -- Paul Auster
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. -- Christina Rossetti
While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace. -- Mariella Frostrup
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage. -- Simon Hoggart
The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted. -- Kenneth Blackwell
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way. -- Megan Abbott
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel. -- Martha Beck
The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff. -- Christoph Waltz
When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work. -- Marc Jacobs
Continuous eloquence is tedious. -- Blaise Pascal
Existence is tedious, anyway. -- Anton Chekhov
My backstory is so tedious. -- Ray LaMontagne
Most screen violence is tedious. -- Nick Cave
People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde
I don't like programming. It's tedious. -- Rasmus Lerdorf
How tedious is a guilty conscience! -- John Webster
What so tedious as a twice-told tale? -- Homer
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. -- Oscar Wilde
It's so tedious that everyone must be defined. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment. -- Uta Hagen
Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. -- Karl Marx
I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious. -- Eric Idle
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. -- Peter Shaffer
Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking. -- Jessica Valenti
Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious. -- Mara Wilson
I see a man's life is a tedious one. -- William Shakespeare
Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation! -- Mason Cooley
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. -- Homer
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious. -- Honore de Balzac
Almost nothing is more tedious than complaining about the weather. -- Meghan Daum
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. -- Anatole France
I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage. -- Charlie Hunnam
There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety. -- Margery Sharp
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation! -- Mary Collyer
One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering -- Ben Jonson
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. -- Seneca the Younger
Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long. -- Faina Ranevskaya
Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. -- William Shakespeare
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. -- Victor Hugo
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it. -- Oscar Wilde
The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays. -- John Dryden
Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author. -- William Wordsworth
Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company. -- Mason Cooley
When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting. -- Hamilton Leithauser
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious. -- Baal Shem Tov
My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies. -- William Shakespeare
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. -- Charles Lamb
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? -- Charles Caleb Colton
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow. -- Hugh Grant
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity. -- Fiona Shaw
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. -- Wilson Mizner
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. -- Virgil
I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious. -- Jeremy Irons
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important. -- Berthold Auerbach
It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude. -- Norm MacDonald
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work. -- William Shakespeare
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching. -- Martin Luther
For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth. -- Eric Linklater
I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is. -- Brad Garrett
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. -- Robert Hughes
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. -- Oscar Wilde
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. -- Alexander Pope
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious. -- Agatha Christie
how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day. -- Agatha Christie
I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious. -- Mike May
I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it. -- Jessa Crispin
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live. -- Seneca the Younger
Personal finances are like people's personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener. -- Thomas Keneally
Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group. -- Dennis Miller
I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will. -- John Webster
What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies. -- John Milton
Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring. -- Abbi Glines
But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending. -- John Milton
Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people. -- Mike Davidson
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Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious. -- Peter Dinklage
Web design is something that's super technical but can be super tedious if you have to deal with asshole clients. -- Jessica Hische
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. -- Francis Crick
Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious. -- Storm Jameson
I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits. -- Maria Muldaur
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure. -- Bruce Lee
It's the same thing. Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed. -- Nicholas Sparks
The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain. -- Benjamin Hart
I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. -- William Shakespeare
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first. -- Dorothea Dix
A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious. -- Stevie Smith
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual. -- Seneca the Younger
Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy -- Will Shortz
Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another. -- Eckhart Tolle
Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends. -- Mark Strickson
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness. -- George D. Prentice
I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding. -- Nick Offerman
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us. -- Seneca the Younger
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading. -- John Vanbrugh
Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability. -- Bill Bailey
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career. -- Richard Asher

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