Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marie Antoinette

I am terrified of being bored.

Maureen Dowd

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

Jess Glynne

'Rather Be' and 'Real Love' are two of the most fun songs to perform; they're such feel-good tracks. 'Rather Be,' especially - I've sung it so many times, but I'm still not bored of it.

Chauncey Billups

Strange as it sounds, we get bored sometimes being able to win so many games so easily. It's not something that should happen, but it's what did happen.

Miranda Cosgrove

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

Linus Torvalds

Now, most of you are probably going to be totally bored out of your minds on Christmas day, and here's the perfect distraction. Test 2.6.15-rc7. All the stores will be closed, and there's really nothing better to do in between meals.

Maria Bello

At first I didn't know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly.

Susanne Bier

There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it. I really felt that movies had to have that life of vivid colors.

Tim Henman

There were times in 2005 when I was sick of tennis but I looked at it in the context of over 20 years competing. My school holidays used to be about which tournaments I'd play in. It's human nature to get just a little bored with it and that is the first time it had happened to 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.

Stephen Rea

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

Peter Kreeft

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

Leonard Orr

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

Viktor E. Frankl

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Susanna Kaysen

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

Susanna Kaysen

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Taron Egerton

To be perfectly honest, I like pressure. It's something I find exciting. And I am the kind of personality that gets very bored very easily. The work I try and involve myself with is ordinarily determined by how much it sort of frightens me.

Stephen King

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

Stephanie Mills

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

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.

Tom Hodgkinson

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tom Hodgkinson

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

Toni Morrison

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever ...