Barbara Hambly Quotes

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

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

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

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

My greatest fear: repetition.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

Day by day, I'm kind of a bore.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.

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.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.

When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me.

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Too much good taste can be boring

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.

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

So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.