Amy Tan Quotes

When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me.

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

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

Always the same thing.

Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.

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

one day in the country is exactly like another.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.

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

Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.

Day by day, I'm kind of a bore.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

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

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

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

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.