To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band work, and sprints. Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.
Adam Richman
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
Ajay Devgan
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein
If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.
Amy Seimetz
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
Bela Lugosi
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.
Bennett Miller
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Charlotte Bronte
I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.
Charlotte Rampling
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Coco Chanel
When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.
Dean Karnazes
As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony.
Divyanka Tripathi
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
Freeman Dyson
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
Guillaume Apollinaire
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
H. P. Lovecraft
I love challenges, as it breaks the monotony and takes me out of my comfort zone.
Himesh Reshammiya
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
Irving Wallace
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.
Italo Calvino
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
Ivor Novello
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters.
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.
Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.
For my parents, leaving the close social quarters of Abilene was like getting out of jail. They were not true West Texans; they had not come to love the unending monotony of mesquite barrens or the high, hot blue sky that made sunsets a matter of prayerful thankfulness.
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
Trucking-company terminals are places where paperwork gets filled out, driving orders are given, and partners are assigned. They can often be social hubs for drivers, breaking up the monotony and solitude they face on the road.
I am not the one for monotony. I am all for chances and its every medium, every genre that I want to explore.
I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.
I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.
I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.
The suits are as similar as uniforms, and yet you can tell their individual qualities by how they respond to movement - the good ones ripple like wheat in a field and provide not a show of monotony but rather a spectacle of plenty.
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
