T. S. Eliot Quotes

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

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

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

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.

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

I was born and raised in Denver, went to school there, went to college there, and I've been on the same team for seven years, and I kind of found myself going through the motions a little bit.

Let's have a day in the life of Gerard." Going to get coffee! Going to get coffee!' That's all it would be.

I don't need to be told the same thing every day, every morning, same words.

been there done that, bought the t-shirt" Chapter 2

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

The most exciting thing either of us does is nap.

In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen.

Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to.

I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't wait to get up in the morning and look awful. I'm looking forward to getting bored.

If it wasn't for coffee, I'd have no discernible personality at all.

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.