Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.
The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.