Words matter. These are the best Tiresome Quotes from famous people such as William Gaddis, Voltaire, Rick Wilson, Samuel Beckett, Teller, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Trump-era name-calling is just as tiresome and juvenile as it is nonsensical.
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
If there isn’t at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.
I don’t like writing grand battles and I find it tiresome to research weapons development and military strategy.
I don’t think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I’m suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That’s my fault. I know it’s a burden on the people I’m with. It’s tiresome.
I don’t know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it’s like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom.
While all Republicans acknowledge that there were mistakes made during the Bush Administration, again the continuous pointing a finger at President Bush has gotten tiresome.
What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
I myself, as an American Indian, feel like a failure in a way. I have not been able to do anything about the fact that these large corporations are taking so much natural gas and oil out of the soil. It seems like we’re always involved in fighting something. It’s tiresome.
Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
These awful middle-class queens – which is what the gay movement has become – are so tiresome. It’s all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.
I don’t know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it’s like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom.
In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.
Traveling the road can be quite tiresome.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: ‘Look at us! Our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!’
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: ‘Look at us! Our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!’
For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life’s experience in some semblance of its complexity – for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you’re young but which I found got tiresome.
I’m constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier – which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.
I’m constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier – which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.
I don’t think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I’m suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That’s my fault. I know it’s a burden on the people I’m with. It’s tiresome.
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins – self-righteousness and intolerance – for the opinions of others. If I couldn’t laugh, I couldn’t live, especially in politics.
Things like, when a total stranger says, ‘I want you to record something for my forthcoming wedding,’ that can be a bit tiresome. But it’s a high-class problem. It doesn’t hurt my feelings.
Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don’t have the ability to look at it as if it’s the first time we’ve ever done it.
Trump-era name-calling is just as tiresome and juvenile as it is nonsensical.
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Lazy journalists, they’ll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I’ll say a similar thing; it’s very tiresome.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
To be someplace for ten years or to work anywhere for ten years is a tough deal. But to work in the WWE for that long, knowing how their dressing room is run with this top heavy, condescending ‘do this and nothing else’ attitude, it gets tiresome.
Traveling the road can be quite tiresome.
The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
When you’re stuck in situations like that, month after month, going from bubble to bubble, and if those restrictions remain the same or quite similar, it can be quite tiresome on the mind and body as well.
These awful middle-class queens – which is what the gay movement has become – are so tiresome. It’s all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.
My mother always said bringing me up was a tiring business, which I ‘believe. For instance, when we lived in Singapore, the Chinese staff used to leave their slippers at the bottom of the steps. Every night, I used to go and remove their slippers. I stopped being tiresome at about 14.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I’ve never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O’Hara.
