Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iggy Pop

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

Hugh Prather

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

Oscar Wilde

Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact

Anita Loos

Tallulah never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

It's come full circle. There's more intrigue when people identify themselves as virgins or celibate or whatever. People have gotten bored with the endless display of graphic sex.

Once the wetness has disappeared, soak and bore again,

Gia Coppola

Once I found these sticker things for your nails - Sally Hansen - those were really fun to do. They're really fun to do when you're bored, and it's better than painting your nails because you don't mess up. It looks really good, very professional. I tried a zebra one that was really pretty, but I always get a little bored of it.

It's the impression that the series of interest rate rises are nearer the end than the beginning, and people were bored after last year with the market flat on the year.

It started in '77 as just a rainy-day party, a bunch of friends, because we were bored and tired of the rain.

Andy Warhol

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.

David Sutcliffe

It's a lot of fun to be able to run around with guns and scream and yell and do the kind of FBI-cop kind of stuff, which is different than what I've been doing, which is kind of playing the boy-girl thing. Its always fun to kiss the pretty girl, but sometimes, amazingly, you can get bored with that, too.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom

Bill Wade

They are working long shifts, and sometimes they wake up a few times a night out of a dead sleep and have to go full bore within minutes, ... That's very taxing on the body, particularly the heart.

Robin Wright

Oh my God, Zumba is the greatest invention ever for women. I like to exercise, though I do nothing consistently because I get bored and impatient. With Zumba, you're dancing, you're moving your hips. So much fun.

Ron Gardenhire

It's another disappointing loss for us. The guys are battling. We've got to win games, and we're going to try as hard as we can. I expect this team to go out full bore and win. We'll never stop trying to do that.

Jim McKelvey

It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

Sebastian Horsley

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

Joey Ramone

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

John Green

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

John Green

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

Ted Shackelford

The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they've heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out of your mind.

Ted Turner

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Joseph Brodsky

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

Paloma Faith

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

Lev Grossman

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

Laurence Olivier

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

Lauren Oliver

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

Larry Wall

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

Lillian Gish

As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.

Paul Schrader

I get bored very easily. I find most movies boring. I go to movies and ask, "How do they stay awake making this?"

Paul Mooney

If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.

Mason Cooley

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.