James Patterson Quotes

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

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

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

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

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.

My fear is getting stuck doing the same thing over and over.

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.

Always the same thing.

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

When you do not change up a lot, people may know you a lot better than they should.

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

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

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

My greatest fear: repetition.

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.

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

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.