John Niven Quotes

The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they've heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out of your mind.

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.

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

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.

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

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

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

I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.

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?

When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up.

Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.

I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel the repetition. The buffalo goes on eating the same grass every day with the same delight. You cannot. How can you eat the same grass with the same delight? You get fed up.

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.

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

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

one day in the country is exactly like another.

been there done that, bought the t-shirt" Chapter 2

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.