Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandre Dumas

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

Kristen Schaal

I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect them to be bored and just stare at you blankly. And that's exactly what you'll get at a comedy club. If you can toughen up with a cow audience, then you'll never be worried with a human audience.

Pete Sampras

When you retire, you take time away, you don't want to have anything to do with tennis. After two years of having fun and not doing much in the sport, you get a little bored and want to know what's the next chapter in your life. Last year was a turning point 'What am I going to do next?' and I had to make a decision.

When fire burns the enthusiasm is worth seeing. People, who are enthusiastic and happy, lethargy and boredom never plague them.

The fact is that you don't want the consumer to get bored with your product or they'll easily substitute it with something else.

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.

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

Matthew Fox

Just because a middle-aged woman in a small Ontario town and a young gay man in a city have obvious differences doesn't mean they can't be extremely similar in terms of their existential lives, or in the way that they go about doing whatever it is they go about doing, be it sodomy or dusting, ... If you are bored with those activities, you may end up having similar reflections about them -- or they might be placeholders, or become obsessions.

B. F. Skinner

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

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.

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?'

Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Carrie Underwood

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

Bill Bryson

I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.

Bette Davis

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

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.

Manisha Koirala

It is important we do not give this too much attention. Just as in the early days of the internet, porn was everywhere and later people got bored of it, interest in interest in this too will die a natural death.

Shawn Mendes

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.

The British may be reluctant to storm the plane with so many women and children on board. They're more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon, waiting out the crisis and letting the hijackers tire and then later offering them a way out.

Kaley Cuoco

A while ago, I was starting to get bored with my routine, so I tried Spinning and fell in love with it instantly. I go to class three times a week, without fail. I always get there early so I can sit in the front of the studio, and I'm ready to go as soon as the instructor comes in.

In 1968, after 30 years of full employment and economic growth, students were bored to death. Today, after 20 years of unemployment, the students of 2006 are looking for security.

I like doing all these events, it makes me more versatile and I never get bored just doing one, that's for sure.

I'm rather bored by the subject-meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

If you live in New York City, you will never be bored for a second in your life.

I love the competition. I love staying active; when I don't have something to do I get really bored and I have to find something to do.

John Cale

I just get bored with what I'm doing. I like to switch. I did a lot of soundtrack work, and once I got that under my belt, I started writing songs.

Courtney Barnett

I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level.

Johan Bruyneel

I haven't spoken with him today, but it's nothing new. He started training three weeks ago and it shows he's getting a little bored with being retired.

Alan Ball

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

I just worry that it reinforces some of the negative stereotypes about workers in the public service: that they're bored and not interested in their work.

Jill Sobule

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

Jacqueline Woodson

I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.