Tedium Quotes

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
Robert Plant

Lost, Singer, Repetition

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
Billy Corgan

Days, Competing

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.
Christopher Meloni

Life, Hate, Done

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arthur Helps

Confidence, Self, Once

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
Rob Sheffield

Life, Boring, Bored

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
Lance Loud

Waiting, Happen, Worse

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
Philip Guedalla

History, Fiction, South

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South

Nothing, Argument, Prove

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.
George Combe

Success, Simple, Long

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