Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ina May Gaskin

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

Nancy Mitford

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

Kit Reed

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

Kay Thompson

Getting bored is not allowed.

Maria Bello

At first I didn't know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly.

Sebastian Horsley

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

Skylar Grey

One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.

Rajneesh

Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere.

Rajneesh

If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.

Rajneesh

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

Rajneesh

The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.

Michael Shannon

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

Neil Gaiman

I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)

Terence Stamp

A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

Nick Frost

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

Miranda July

I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.

Mignon McLaughlin

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

Philip Larkin

Life is first boredom, then fear,

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

Peggy Noonan

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Marie Antoinette

I am terrified of being bored.

Maureen Dowd

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

Mason Cooley

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

Mason Cooley

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

Mason Cooley

When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.

Mason Cooley

One eventually has enough even of oneself.

Mason Cooley

A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

Mason Cooley

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

Mason Cooley

A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.

Mason Cooley

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.

Mason Cooley

Yawns are hard to refute.