Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

People are incredible creatures of habit.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

Habit is a great deadener.

When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it.

I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed... anything that could be counted, I did.

I think anyone that's in the same building or the same place for a really long period of time, some parts of it become routine.

I've always been very un-fun. I'm a habit person. I have a very weak version of an addictive personality.

The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.

Everybody does the same thing over and over again. I like to do the same thing every day.