Quotes of: Boring-thing Keyword

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

The Golden Notebook

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

How Should a Person Be?

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

How To Write Science Fiction

You can only fight one man at a time with a sword, but, with a pen, you can compose a lecture to bore legions of enemy troops to death.

Blood and Betrayal

In the beginning there was Logos...and God of course. And it was all extremely boring for Logos because he could never beat God at any game...

The Book of the Forsaken

I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Henry Rollins

I'm good at being on my own. As a kid, I was always in my room alone, so I have a high threshold for it. If I'm bored, I'll read. Hanging around doesn't go well with me.

John Simm

While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in California are amazing, as they are always challenging, and I never get bored from all the beautiful scenery.

Dylan Lauren

I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

Billy Childish

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some d...

John Updike

Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.

After the Apocalypse

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

All for Love

He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.

A Journey of the Heart

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

We all have scars, Wharick. Mine happen to be on the the outside," Kathel answered but knew what he said wasn't entirely true. He bore scars on the inside as well.

Magnificence

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

My Name Is Memory

I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

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