Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

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

I'm very much a creature of habit.

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

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

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

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

I'm used to the Journey routine now.

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'm creature of habit.

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

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.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

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

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

I like routine.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.