Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandre Dumas

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

Alexandre Dumas

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

Rick Perlstein

That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.

Life is like the remote control, switch it , sway with it.Find what satisfies you and go with it. When you get bored with what you see, create your own life...Kat Morgan

Brendan Shanahan

Let's be honest -- the same way fans were getting bored with the game in the past, players were too. So in a game like this, with all the excitement and guys coming at you with speed, players like Chris Chelios react to that.

Ann Voskamp

The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.

Tom Bissell

The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it's artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.

Bob Dylan

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

Boris Pasternak

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

Brad Pitt

It's boredom. No other reason than that.

Kristen Schaal

I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect them to be bored and just stare at you blankly. And that's exactly what you'll get at a comedy club. If you can toughen up with a cow audience, then you'll never be worried with a human audience.

Katharine Graham

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

Amanda Crew

When I look for the next project, it's always about, 'Is it going to push me out of my comfort zone? Am I doing something different? Am I working with people who are passionate about what they're doing?' At the end of the day, if I'm going to be bored on set, then I'm not gonna be happy.

Dennis Prager

Secularism produces a bored soul

Dennis Crowley

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

Dean Koontz

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

Daniel Handler

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

Daniel Handler

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

Elizabeth I

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Eli Broad

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

Elias Canetti

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

She drove right through the back of the garage. We always used to say my dad was never bored with my mother.

Augusten Burroughs

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

Charles Bukowski

Only the boring get bored

The fact is that you don't want the consumer to get bored with your product or they'll easily substitute it with something else.

When I'm with the children I get a feel for what I think they would get really excited about. If I stood up and talked about aerodynamics they would be bored to death.

DeAngelo Hall

loves being challenged. He gets bored if he's not being challenged.

Elton John

She understands what a performer has to go through. I feel so sorry for her when she goes to all these different countries, has to stand there and watch things, and she must be bored out of her mind half the time.

Ben Edlund

The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.

Bonnie Raitt

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.

Samuel Butler

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

Eric S. Raymond

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.

Ira Glass

I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.