“Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous”
Eric Hoffer
“This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy”
Charles Gounod
“Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.”
Wislawa Szymborska
“So it doesn't get monotonous. It's a light ... relaxed meet.”
Mike Parker
“My sense of it is that most people's lives are so scheduled, economically tight and monotonous that seeing someone tanned or glowing from an exciting or restful trip is difficult to bear.”
Sonya Friedman
“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
Albert Einstein
