Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Louise Brooks

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

Eric Hoffer

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

O. Henry

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

Oscar Wilde

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Katharine Whitehorn

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

Elvis Presley

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

Francois Fenelon

If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

Heraclitus

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Misty May

Just the history, the boardwalk, the food, the amusement park.

Terry Teachout

I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

Samuel Johnson

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

Will Rogers

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Walter Scott

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

Iggy Pop

I mean, the embarrassment quotient has been going down for a long time, and the fond amusement has been rising.

Steve Millburg

I love this boardwalk, even if it is one of the 'board-less' varieties. Actually, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk refers to both the seaside amusement park and the concrete path that runs through it. Here, find everything from a classic wooden roller coaster, a 1911 carousel, arcade and video games and an extra-wide beach with volleyball nets to free concerts, great surfing and windsurfing and a half-mile-long pier lined with seafood restaurants. Coastal nirvana.

Joseph Addison

Encourage innocent amusement.

Sam Reeves

All of a sudden I had the hottest amusement device of the decade. I went from not having any money to having a lot of money. I was getting' it on, boy. I thought I was a movie star.

Ada Leverson

He seemed at ease and to have the look of the last gentleman in Europe.

Guillermo Coria

I thought that sooner or later he would give up, or at least ease up. But he kept responding with incredible shots, shots that few people would have been able to come up with.

Tom Glavine

I think we need to do everything we can to put everyone's mind at ease about players using steroids,

Julio Lugo

It gives the retail investor all the ease and convenience of investing overseas.

Mike Moran

I think they will ease policy at that time,

Magic Johnson

I watched the way he handled himself on all those nationally televised interviews that followed, and he seemed to be at ease and having fun with things. It reminded me of me. When I met Jason, I told him that he and I must have known each other from a previous life.

Bruce Steinberg

I think they may ease as soon as late January.

Andrew Burns

There is an expectation that oil prices will remain high in the first half and ease in the second half.

Gabe Gross

He was going to just try to ease one in there for Strike 1, and I saw it well and put a good swing on it.