“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
“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
Albert Einstein
“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
“Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous”
Eric Hoffer
“So it doesn't get monotonous. It's a light ... relaxed meet.”
Mike Parker
“He demanded that the players and their position coaches watch a lot of film. We were monotonous in preparing for every possible scenario and making sure we can run certain plays against anything.”
Chris Wood
“What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous”
