Victor Hugo Quotes
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo
Quotes to Explore
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I am aware that my musical style is not necessarily to the taste of all of you. I've got a heightened 'boredom factor' if music gets too redundant.
Wendy Carlos
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Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
William Blake
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet
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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
John Milton
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No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
William Gurnall
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Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.
N. Katherine Hayles
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Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.
Bill Murray
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I also collaborate a lot with friends, like Darrell Smith, or Carl Burnett, or Paul Brown, my co-producer. Quite often it’s a jamming thing; we’ll just sort of hang, and come up with ideas, and if it’s something we like, we’ll hack away at it.
Boney James
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
Mal Peet
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People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.
Elizabeth Moon
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We'll see. If I don't get an answer before this evening, I'll take 25 pills and gently fall asleep into another world.
Eva Braun
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo
