Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

Bonnie Raitt

Some people are caricatures of themselves, and some people keep people coming back and keep themselves growing. Otherwise, the fans would get bored.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Edmund Hillary

Boredom has always been a problem.

When I'm with the children I get a feel for what I think they would get really excited about. If I stood up and talked about aerodynamics they would be bored to death.

Tom Bissell

The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it's artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.

Bob Dylan

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

Boris Pasternak

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

Augusten Burroughs

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

Elizabeth I

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Eli Broad

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

Elias Canetti

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

Brad Pitt

It's boredom. No other reason than that.

Matt Taylor

There are some people who have seen us multiple times, and when I say multiple I mean coming up on a hundred. Yeah so it's a little strange?I can't even watch the same movie twice 'cause I get bored with it, so I don't know how people can see us over ninety times; it's unbelievable.

Charles Bukowski

Only the boring get bored

Cam Gigandet

I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

Cameron Diaz

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

Christopher Moore

The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get bored easily, so I generally throw something supernatural in. I would say they're humorous novels that have a supernatural bent, but that's as close as you're going to get to fitting them all in the same basket.

Quincy Jones

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?

Kent has never been one to stick with a lot of anything. He can do anything, but he gets bored too easily.

Kids can get bored just looking at things. But if they can touch it, throw it, pull it or push it, they really enjoy it. I should know this. I have two children (Tyler, 10, and Alyssa, 4). Right now our target-age group is up to probably 7-year-olds. But we get kids 8, 9, 10 and 11 who have a really good time with it. I want kids to walk out of here saying they've had a really good time. For me, it's really rewarding to see smiles.

Brittany Howard

I was a handful as a kid. I get bored easily. Now I'm pretty chill compared to back then. When I'm on the road, I watch Netflix and, at home, relax or fish.

Kevin Rooney

His own boredom could be a problem. He could stay on top a long time -- if that's what he wants. That's a big 'if.' That's up to him. He's under a lot of pressure, and the next few years will be a problem. He won't mature until he's 25.

Susan Strasberg

My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.

Alison Goldfrapp

But what's great about working with Will is that I was so bored of working with people who seemed to be much more interested in what was cool or fashionable. Will is very open-minded and even though he's classically trained, he's the only person I've ever met that I feel I can relate to musically. He understands how I think about music and vice-versa.

He was bored in winter. It was terrible for winter work.

Nobody's bored tonight, which is one of the reasons why I wanted to do this.

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.

Alan Pardew

He's had his operation. He's bored but in good spirits and looking forward to coming back. We think that will take six weeks.

Ani Difranco

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

Alison Goldfrapp

You don't get bored making an album.

Andy Andrews

I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.