(10 quotes found)
“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
“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
“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
“It gets kind of monotonous doing this over and over again. But once you physically feel good, you get anxious for the season to start.”
Shawn Chacon
“So it doesn't get monotonous. It's a light ... relaxed meet.”
Mike Parker
“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
Albert Einstein
“Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.”
Wislawa Szymborska
“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”
“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
