Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Stormare

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

Peter Lynch

When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying.

Moss Hart

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

Victor Hugo

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

Victor Hugo

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

Richard Marx

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

Rene Magritte

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

Renee Fleming

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

Timothy Leary

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

Robert McKee

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Roger Ebert

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Roger Ebert

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Samuel Johnson

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Rob Lowe

If people are watching me 365 days a year, 360 days they might be bored to tears. And on the other five days, maybe I would qualify as Satan.

Rebecca Stead

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Uma Thurman

Boredom is a great motivator.

Vince Staples

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

Sade Adu

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

Robertson Davies

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

Robert Payne

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wayne Dyer

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Samuel Beckett

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

Wayne Dyer

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Wayne Dyer

The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

Warren Zevon

I don't get depressed and I don't get bored

Thomas Jane

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

Victor Hugo

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Hal Sparks

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

Greta Garbo

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

Jeremy Clarkson

I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of cold sausages on the previous 4,000 excursions. Then, for no obvious reason, I decided to buy a footstool.

Fulton J. Sheen

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

Jewel

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.