Rose Wilder Lane Quotes

You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.

When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.

We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.

You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.