James Russell Lowell Quotes

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.

Monotony reveals our limitations.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

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

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.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

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

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

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

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

All the time; same as you.

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

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

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.

Always the same thing.

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

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

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.