Tedious Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (T) Quotes

"We had vast objections to the whole San Francisco scene. It`s just tedious, a lie and untalented. They can`t play and they certainly can`t write... You know, people like Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead are just the most untalented bores that ever came up. Just look at them physically, I mean, can you take Grace Slick seriously? It`s a joke! It`s a joke! The kids are being hyped."

- Lou Reed

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It`s incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

- Hugh Grant

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

- Charlie Hunnam

(on physical training for film roles) "I find it the most tedious waste of life. It`s so boring. I`d prefer to be sitting in a pub with a few strangers talkin` shit than looking at myself in the mirror runnin` on the treadmill."

- Colin Farrell

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.

- Joan Collins

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

- Kathy Griffin

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

- Leslie Caron

It`s terrible. Every six weeks it`s Christmas. In Catch-22 (1970), the hero says, "Time is going by so fast, I have to make my life more boring." That`s what I`ve got to do, because my life is so interesting and I enjoy myself so much, I`ve got to make it more tedious, because I`ll be 100 in a minute. My mother died when she was 90, so I`ve got just under 20 years left. The terrible thing is that in obituaries, you read, "He died at 74, he had a good life." You think, "Bloody hell, I`ve only got 18 months to go". And another strange thing about aging - as you get older, it gets faster, and you see people you haven`t seen in what you think is five years, but it turns out to be 25 years. You say, "I made that film ten years ago," and they correct me: "Thirty, Michael. Thirty".

- Michael Caine

When you`re on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It`s just not as big as when you see it on film.

- Sanaa Lathan

I do prefer theater. The whole process of film is just so tedious. You`re there for 18 hours a day, there`s so much idle time. You just burn out. Also, there isn`t the camaraderie you get in the theater.

- Sam Rockwell

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

- Fiona Shaw

I think commercials get a bad rap, that there`s no creativity to them, but I haven`t found that to be entirely true. The process of auditioning for them can be tedious but actually doing them can be really fun.

- Judith Hoag

I have the impression that the images that surround us today are worn out, they are abused and useless and exhausted. They are limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. When I look at the postcards in tourist shops and the images and advertisements that surround us in magazines, or I turn on the television, or if I walk into a travel agency and see those huge posters with that same tedious and rickety image of the Grand Canyon on them, I truly feel there is something dangerous emerging here. The biggest danger, in my opinion, is television because to a certain degree it ruins our vision and makes us very sad and lonesome. Our grandchildren will blame us for not having tossing hand-grenades into TV stations because of commercials. Television kills our imagination and what we end up with are worn out images because of the inability of too many people to seek out fresh ones.

- Werner Herzog

We were very pleased at how easy it was to migrate to AdManager, ... To manually transition all of our campaigns to the new system would have been a tedious and time-consuming task. Using Accipiter`s XMLServer Module, it took us less than one week to successfully migrate our campaigns, saving us time, operational costs, and reducing the potential for human error.

- Jason Gould

We were very pleased at how easy it was to migrate to AdManager, ... To manually transition all of our campaigns to the new system would have been a tedious and time-consuming task. Using Accipiter`s XMLServer Module, it took us less than one week to successfully migrate our campaigns, saving us time, operational costs, and reducing the potential for human error.

- Jason Gould

When a hero decides to take revenge, their hitherto tedious life is ended and they are born again as a completely different person. With the completion of revenge in sight, the hero has to face the fact that their pleasure up until that point must come to an end.

- Chan-wook Park

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

A lot of people thought my work was very tedious, and it can be if you look at it from that point of view, but I never looked upon it as tedious.

- Ray Harryhausen

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

- Peter Shaffer

From ball one, they played out for a draw and it was absolutely tedious and very disappointing.

- Andy Johnson

Given that the movie had to condense four days into two hours, and given that the communications were sometimes rather tedious and technical, it was pretty accurate, ... Apollo 13.

- Fred Haise

I began developing the plug-in collection because of several severe shortcomings in Finale that were causing me many hours of tedious manual work.

- Robert Patterson

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

- Manfred von Richthofen

It`s tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that`s not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it`s going to end.

- Rudy Rucker

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn`t much better than tedious disease.

- Abdul Salam Zaeef

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

- Abu Morshed

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

- Addie Ince

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn`t.

- Alex Colletti

The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.

- Allen Questrom

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

- Amanda Abel

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

- Amar Stoudemire

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.

- Andreas Marx

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

- Andy Sauer

(76th over: England 292-5 (Flintoff 44, G Jones 13) More good stuff from Flintoff, who rocks back before cracking Warne through the covers for another boundary.) England should change their name to Great Britain, if only to help Welshmen like me have easier lives, ... It`s so tedious explaining to work colleagues how I can support `England` in cricket and England`s opposition in rugby and football.

- Anthony Bracco

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

- Oscar Wilde

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale

- William Shakespeare

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

- William Shakespeare

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

- William Shakespeare

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 G. Rossetti