Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

David Mamet

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

Andy Warhol

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Andre Gide

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Ambrose Bierce

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.

Eugene Delacroix

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

Erich Fromm

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

Heraclitus

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

B. F. Skinner

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Kevin Rooney

His own boredom could be a problem. He could stay on top a long time -- if that's what he wants. That's a big 'if.' That's up to him. He's under a lot of pressure, and the next few years will be a problem. He won't mature until he's 25.

Bob Geldof

My depressions aren't so much... depression's too heavy a word. I get very down and y'know, boredom is the key to it as I've said.

Walter Kirn

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

Dwight L. Moody

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Daphne du Maurier

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Alexander McCall Smith

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

Clint Eastwood

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

Nicholas Haslam

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

Guy Pearce

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

Lorenzo Romar

If we didn't get him, I'm glad UA got him because Lute does a great job. When you get to know someone like Marcus, you pull for him. He's in good hands.

Ellis Henican

The only thing that's off limits is stuff that bores us.

Billy Graham

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Don Marquis

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Barry Ritholtz

Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

David Mamet

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

Andy Warhol

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.