Fiona Shaw Quotes

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

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

I'm more boring and more conservative.

There is nobody more boring than the undefeated.

Habit is a great deadener.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all other virtues.

At a big company, often size turns into constipation; it fogs the lens about what's really happening. Sometimes with size and success comes the notion that since we've done things to be successful, we have the formula and can institutionalize it. That can be death.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.

I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.