Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graham Norton

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

Graham Norton

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

Giacomo Leopardi

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

Gertrude Stein

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Jess Walter

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Francisco Costa

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

Ian Fleming

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.

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.

Erica Jong

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

Elsa Maxwell

Down with boredom. It has to go.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

Isabelle Adjani

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Gerald Brenan

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Rob Lowe

I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.'

I love the competition. I love staying active; when I don't have something to do I get really bored and I have to find something to do.

John Cale

I just get bored with what I'm doing. I like to switch. I did a lot of soundtrack work, and once I got that under my belt, I started writing songs.

Courtney Barnett

I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level.

Johan Bruyneel

I haven't spoken with him today, but it's nothing new. He started training three weeks ago and it shows he's getting a little bored with being retired.

I don't know if we were bored or what. We did just enough to win the game. We had too many mental lapses and defensive breakdowns.

Jessica Raine

It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom

Jim McKelvey

It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

It's the impression that the series of interest rate rises are nearer the end than the beginning, and people were bored after last year with the market flat on the year.

It started in '77 as just a rainy-day party, a bunch of friends, because we were bored and tired of the rain.

Andy Warhol

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.

David Sutcliffe

It's a lot of fun to be able to run around with guns and scream and yell and do the kind of FBI-cop kind of stuff, which is different than what I've been doing, which is kind of playing the boy-girl thing. Its always fun to kiss the pretty girl, but sometimes, amazingly, you can get bored with that, too.

Katee Sackhoff

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met. It's almost as if they get bored in their own brain and they have to come up with this craziness to stay interested in life.

Ovid

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

Perry Farrell

If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.