It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. VIPessays now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "T" » tedium
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
«Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| Keywords:
accomplished, achieve, costs, decided, distaste, gain, immense, labor, self confidence, task, tedium, tiresome
«Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.»
Author: Philip Guedalla
(Historian)
| Keywords:
biography, bounded, definite, North, North and South, North by, North West, obituaries, obituary, region, South West, tedium, The East, the North, the South, the West
«TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Affirmed, apparently, derivation, derivations, ennui, fanciful, hymn, jape, Latin, natural state, saddened, saddening, saddens, tedium
«Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.»
Research our database of over 800,000 top-quality pre-written papers plus 15,000 biographies for only $9.95/month.
Instant Account Activation. Register Now.
Instant Account Activation. Register Now.