Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Francisco Costa

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

Ian Fleming

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.

Carol Vorderman

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.

Jess Walter

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

Anna Popplewell

I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.

Darren Boyd

I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy doing diverse work is absolutely... I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel very lucky for that.

Sam Rivers

I don't want to bore myself, so I'm always writing new music. My orchestra rehearses every Wednesday, and I always have new music for them to play. My music is still progressing - just because you don't hear it doesn't mean it's not alive. The music is complicated, but it's about emotion. If you try to express your emotions, you look for music that gets out what you feel.

Guy deBord

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Jacques Barzun

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Jackie Collins

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

James Gleick

We choose mania over boredom every time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Jewel

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

Jewel

I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

Fulton J. Sheen

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

Christina Aguilera

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

Christian Louboutin

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

Mike Leigh

If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.

Jackson Pollock

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

Harvey Mackay

You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

Kathleen Blanco

The entire Gulf Coast suffered, but Louisiana bore the brunt of this disaster.

Emily Carr

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Robert Ingersoll

All the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable, grew, blossomed and bore fruit in this one word, Hell

Edward Tufte

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

Edie Sedgwick

I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

O. Henry

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.