Quotes of: Boring-thing Keyword

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

Enchantment

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

Emily's Quest

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

The Four Loves

The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid - a dangerous combination.

Mike Judge

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

Richard Nelson Bolles

I admired shows like 'Six Feet Under.' That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, smart. Loved the characters. Completely original. Those are shows that I admire.

Chris Carter

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.

Claire Danes

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

41 Stories

…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.

The Accidental Siren

You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.

Isla and the Happily Ever After

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Jesus-Shock

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Reaper Man

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

Les Misérables

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

My Merlin Awakening

...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.

Stoner

... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...

Swann's Way

Autumn arrived and life was in danger of becoming boring again.

Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

[The building] had been designed by an architect, so it bore little resemblance to any normal structure.

The Pericles Commission

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

Practical Magic