Quotes of: Boring Keyword

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Bill Gates

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Francis Picabia

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.

Kathleen Quinlan

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Stephen Hawking

The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

He glanced up once, eyes bored. “Please stop talking. I’m trying to eat.

The Curse Girl

I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

Coraline

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

Dead as a Doornail

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

Eat, Pray, Love

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

The Gone-Away World

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Jesus-Shock

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Killosophy

You wouldn't how boring of a job it is, tasting food to make sure it isn't poisoned.

A Royal Reborn

He carries books everywhere he goes so he won’t have to be bored by people.

At Risk

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially speaking.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Their eyes locked. They could see into each other's souls. This was why she had been bored.

Oxford Whispers

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Real Frank Zappa Book

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

Cokie Roberts