Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

Voltaire

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

Winston Churchill

I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

Winston Churchill

I'm so bored with it all.

William S. Burroughs

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

Wislawa Szymborska

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

Wendell Phillips

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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.

Laurie Helgoe

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

Terry Pratchett

I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.

Leonard Orr

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

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.

Walt Disney

I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.

Roman Polanski

With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.

Susan Orlean

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

Susan Cain

Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

Simon Baker

I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

Tallulah Bankhead

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

Tony Robbins

You can't sit at the table of success for too long or you'll feel bored and dead.

Tony Robbins

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

Tony Robbins

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Stephen Hawking

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

Stendhal

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

Stendhal

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

Stendhal

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

Simon Cowell

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

Shawn Ashmore

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

Remy de Gourmont

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

Tim Gunn

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.