That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
What's interesting about textiles is that they are determined about three seasons in advance, that's why when you walk into a store you think "Gee, everything looks about the same."
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.
I think if every song I had was, 'I love you, you love me,' there would be a problem.
Harmony is boring.
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
I mean, sleeping with the same woman, night after night. Boring!
The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.
I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.
If we don't know who is who because everyone is behaving the same then it's boring. We don't think it's boring because we love tennis. But bring someone who doesn't love tennis and they will think it's incredibly boring.
I am most scared of being bored
Beware of creating tedium!
So I'm wearing that today. And I wore it yesterday, too. Maybe I'll wear it tomorrow. I just collect stuff, I guess.
I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.
My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.
Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.
We've had a steady diet of that PG-13 entertainment. It's the best vanilla you can buy. It's delicious, but it's getting kind of samey.
If football covers all your emotions, that's too shallow for me.
There are worse things than getting pigeonholed in Hollywood.
We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise.
I think the mainstream gaming industry has a very narrow focus on the young male audience. There are plenty of other people out there who enjoy playing games, but if you walk into most game stores, there's nothing on the shelf for them. I mean, imagine if you could only buy cheeseburgers and nothing but cheeseburgers in every restaurant?
Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony