Dave Davies Quotes

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

I don't need to be told the same thing every day, every morning, same words.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.

I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

Always the same thing.

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.

I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.