Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Howard Stern

I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

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.

Elton John

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.

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.

Jonathan Stroud

I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.

Joaquin Phoenix

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

John C. Reilly

I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.

Emile M. Cioran

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

Emile M. Cioran

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Emile M. Cioran

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

Ellen DeGeneres

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

Ellen DeGeneres

I like to try new things because I get bored so easily.

Eric Andre

Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long."

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.

Henri Matisse

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

Heinrich Heine

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Henry James

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Helena Bonham Carter

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

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.

Mason Cooley

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.