Famous Quotes & Sayings

We thought things were happening on the landscape that we don't know about. We said, 'Let's get a bunch of people out on the landscape to tell us about wetlands.' Those wetlands stories bore out under investigation.

David Bowie

Never bored, so I'll never get old

Darrell Royal

I quit when I was 52, and everybody was telling me that I was too young and I'd be bored - all of those things.

Cliff Burton

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

Daphne du Maurier

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Billy Graham

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Damian Marley

I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.

Harlan Coben

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

Don Marquis

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Ian Harding

If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.

Barry Ritholtz

Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

P. J. O'Rourke

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

Chuck Palahniuk

At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.

Harland Williams

I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.

I was bored with it and just dropped out and went to work unloading semis by hand,

I was bored at one of the parties I was attending, and so pulled Kipling away from his friends and took him fishing. I was bored at one of the parties I was attending, and so pulled Kipling away from his friends and took him fishing.

Mostly they keep them put away, but if they get bored they might play a game or take a picture.

Danny Boyle

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

Paul Horn

It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

We figured they'd go to church, go out to lunch and then about 3 o'clock - once the young kids are bored - maybe they'd come to the ballpark. Looks like it worked.

We played real well in the first half, but then I think we got bored in the second half. Next week, we've gotta be ready.

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.

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.

Flip Saunders

Our guys have to be stimulated mentally. I've always said this team gets bored at times. When you're forced to react, forced to move, you don't really have a chance to maybe think about getting bored. You just go out and your instincts take over.

Clint Eastwood

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

Alexander McCall Smith

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

Alexa Chung

I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

Alexa Chung

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning,

Douglas Booth

I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself.

Douglas Booth

I want to be challenged, I want to keep challenging myself - whether or not it's changing yourself physically or just pushing yourself to a certain extreme. I get bored quite easily so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

Clark Kerr

If you are bored with Berkeley, you are bored with life.

Claude C. Hopkins

People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted