Stevie Nicks Quotes

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Constant repetition dulls receptivity.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

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

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

I don't get hyped when I see stars now because it's like second nature to me.

Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

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.

I've lost the ability to be surprised.

I think people are getting more and more - unfortunately - inured to violence. People are like, less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

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".

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

People always get used to beauty though.

Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives become, then it never stops. The whole act becomes automatic and the mind goes on its own. Then sex also is a boredom.

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.