Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wayne Dyer

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Wayne Dyer

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Elias Canetti

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

Judith Viorst

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

John Jay Chapman

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Lord Hailsham

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

Freya Stark

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

Madame de Stael

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

Marcus Martial

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Mitch Corwin

Grocery stores have historically been fairly boring and not a fun place to shop, but now Whole Foods turned that image on its side.

Regina Rogers

It gets boring a lot of times. When I'm in the game, it's not as boring.

Will Self

Things are only boring if you are boring.

Markus Persson

Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'

Lillie White

I rearrange furniture at home all the time, at least three or four times a year. It gets boring if you don't.

Yorg Kerasiotis

Incredible Consequence. We all love so many different kinds of music that it would be boring to have just one style.

Kevin Hayashi

Not that easy, but just a boring hole.

Kristin Gore

There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.

T. S. Eliot

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

Cameron Diaz

Whatever happens, I owe him, ... He's right there when you need him, and I'm not ashamed to say I needed him a lot.

John Hicks

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

Roxane Gay

I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're not happy with, that they're ashamed of, that they keep constantly trying to change.

He was the kind of man who was not ashamed to show affection. I guess that's what I hated about him.

John English

I'm ashamed of what I've done. I've let down a lot of people,

Jude Law

I just want to say I am deeply ashamed and upset that I've hurt Sienna and the people most close to us.

Charles Moose

I'm sad that those responses occurred. I'm ashamed of my behavior in those situations, clearly embarrassed that I have to relive those situations again,

Elliot Schrage

In an imperfect world, we had to make an imperfect choice. I'm not ashamed of it, and I'm not proud of it... We have begun a path that we believe will ultimately benefit our users in China.