Roald Dahl Quotes

Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable.

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

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

I like routine.

When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

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

But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you're going to be doing. Your life has a physical pattern. There's something about the odd, repetitious nature of it that I find hugely relaxing. All the problems of life are taken care of for that bit of time.

I try to just focus in on being in the same routine every single day.

I've always been kind of a play-by-the-rules girl; I tend to like things structured, predictable, and sometimes even a little boring.

While I try and give as much energy, enthusiasm and detail to any work I do, if I keep coming back to it, to the same people year after year, there's an attachment. But you don't want anything to become comfortable.

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

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.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.