Quotes of: Boring Keyword

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.

The Major Works

Feeling bored is a childish attitude. You wouldn't feel so if you don't rely on somebody to change your feeling.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

If you think my current job is boring, you should see the sleeper I did before. (I worked as a mattress salesman.)

Sleepwalking is restercise

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.

Secret of the Sands

With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.

Teenage Idol

...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.

Paranormalcy

Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off. Because if not, how boring would that be?

Radiance

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

Viola in Reel Life

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

Viscount Vagabond

I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

Edie Campbell