Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laini Taylor

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

John Updike

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

James Richardson

I'm sitting here bored, ... trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

Peggy Noonan

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Marie Antoinette

I am terrified of being bored.

Miranda July

I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.

Mignon McLaughlin

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

Emily Oster

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The only boring people I know are bored people.

John Jay Chapman

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

John Berryman

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,

Joe Perry

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

Eric Topol

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

Lord Hailsham

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

Malcolm McDowell

I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

Freya Stark

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

Henri Matisse

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

Heinrich Heine

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

Henry Ward Beecher

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Henry James

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Helena Bonham Carter

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

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.

Josh Hopkins

I'm bored. I'm not unprofessional. I'm just bored.

Kate Mara

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

Judith Viorst

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

Leonard Cohen

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

Madame de Stael

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

Lynn Fontanne

We can be bought, but we cant be bored.

Hans Zimmer

The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, "Okay, let's throw everything out that we had before and let's just see it as an autonomous movie, and let's just start again."

Gustave Flaubert

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

Gustave Flaubert

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

Joaquin Phoenix

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.