Angela Rye Quotes

There is nothing new under the sun.

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

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

It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.

When I say, 'doin' it, doin' it, doin' it' to a group of small business owners, they immediately respond. They recognize the experience of doing the same things over and over. Keeping the business afloat without ever getting ahead. And it's more than frustrating - it's heartbreaking.

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

I feel like the Earth is a re-print of a re-print of a print of a re-print.

I don't want to return to places and sing the same songs a second time.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you've pretty much heard the whole song, that's kind of a bummer.

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

When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.