Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vikram Seth

I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

Srikumar Rao

Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.

You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.

Walter Kirn

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

Ali Smith

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

We want to be accurate. We want to know who the descendants of Thomas Jefferson are. And, if Sally Hemings bore us children. That's fine. We want them in.

Ani Difranco

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

Alison Goldfrapp

You don't get bored making an album.

Andy Andrews

I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

Kary Mullis

I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.

Nancy Gibbs

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

Cybill Shepherd

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.

Alison Jackson

I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.

Keith Richards

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Dave Gahan

Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.

It's so wide; that's what I love most about my career. It's been varied, and the music has been varied, because I find myself getting bored pretty easily. So for me, to work in the studio has been great. I didn't go on the road; I just worked on a different project every day, a different kind of music, and that's the challenge I love.

Timothy Noah

If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.

Vikram Seth

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?

Adam Levine

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

Alfred Lunt

I can be bought, but not bored.

Agatha Christie

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

Adriana Lima

I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.

Salman Khan

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

Marilyn Monroe

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

William Ralph Inge

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Flip Saunders

My take is that these guys need challenges. Sometimes maybe they can get a little bored out there. But when they're locked in, it's like a curtain goes up and you can see it in their faces. They go from fifth gear into a sixth gear.

Nobody bore the whole brunt of this, and it's going to take these kinds of partnerships in the future. It took a village to protect this.

Alex Graves

I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making that Hollywood would be making, and then I went on to 'Game of Thrones,' and it was just like, everything I've been waiting to do was handed to me by really nice people.

My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.

Mary MacLane

One kind of man I impatiently scorn is the kind that looks bored if I mention Ibsen or ceramics or Aztec civilization but is interested instantly, alertly, if I mention my garters

One young lady, she took her kids off the golf course, 'cause they were just bored at best. Good for us they're stuck here.

One weekend I was bored and as a sort of a joke I made this Web site,