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81 " Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad...How right you are, it's so tedious, writing letters!' In the end it was life itself that she declared to us was a bore, without one quite knowing from where she was taking her term of comparison. "
― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah
82 " But a tedious way to a grievous end(745) "
83 " Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good. "
― David Byrne , How Music Works
84 " Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. "
85 " What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease. "
86 " Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die. "
87 " If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work. "
88 " And what so tedious as a twice-told tale. "
89 " What so tedious as a twice-told tale? "
90 " If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work. "
91 " Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question... "
― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
92 " It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude. "
93 " I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude. "
94 " I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story. "
95 " Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage. "
96 " When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work. "
97 " 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. "
98 " Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. "
― Leonardo da Vinci , Thoughts on Art and Life
99 " Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one? "
100 " I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. "