Philip Kerr Quotes

I just don't want to be one of those guys that's stuck fighting the same opponents again and again.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.

You come to a point in your life where you don't want to just keep repeating yourself.

You can't get tied into your past. It's not fun for me. You can't just keep doing the same material forever. Some people just play the hits, and it's the same show every night. They're happy to do that. I personally am not.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

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.

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

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

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

I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.

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

Dynamic change is always my favorite thing. As soon as I feel like I'm doing all of the same stuff over and over again, I'm bored and sad.

I hate to do the same thing twice.

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.

If you do the same thing all the time, it's not very challenging.

I don't like to do the same songs every night for a week. I just... it's boring and tiring and frustrating basically.

If I do the same thing each year, that feels like I am sat on a shelf, and mentally that wouldn't be wise.

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

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?

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

We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man's life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant.