Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Horn

It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

We figured they'd go to church, go out to lunch and then about 3 o'clock - once the young kids are bored - maybe they'd come to the ballpark. Looks like it worked.

We played real well in the first half, but then I think we got bored in the second half. Next week, we've gotta be ready.

Mostly they keep them put away, but if they get bored they might play a game or take a picture.

Danny Boyle

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

I was bored with it and just dropped out and went to work unloading semis by hand,

I was bored at one of the parties I was attending, and so pulled Kipling away from his friends and took him fishing. I was bored at one of the parties I was attending, and so pulled Kipling away from his friends and took him fishing.

I tell people that other programs are spoiled. They get bored silly winning all the time. This is interesting. We've always got something going on.

Isabelle Huppert

I studied, as every little French girl, the piano... I studied for 12 years and then I stopped, because I was very bored with it.

David Johansen

We like to look sixteen and bored sh*tless.

Bertrand Russell

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.

Boredom is a big factor. When it's just a job, it's time to leave.

John C. Reilly

I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.

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!

John Berryman

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

Edward Tufte

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

Edie Sedgwick

I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

Jonathan Stroud

I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

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.

Emile M. Cioran

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Emile M. Cioran

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

Ellen DeGeneres

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

Ellen DeGeneres

I like to try new things because I get bored so easily.

Eric Andre

Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long."

Emily Carr

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

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.