#tedious

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#black #black and white #create #doing #fancy

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad #charming #divide #either #good

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#forced #help #life #long #long life

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#coal #just #mining #tedious #tough

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#find #hate #i #incredibly #itself

Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#downright #fun #getting #html #most

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? ↗

— Roman Payne

#books #escape #flame #heroic #heroism

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#calm #cheer #down #fetch #friend

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#consider #exists #fancy #i #me

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#boring #boring things #difficult #interesting #interesting things