Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm OK being bored on the sidelines. If I'm sitting at practice doing nothing, then it's a good day.

Jessica Raine

It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.

Ron Gardenhire

It's another disappointing loss for us. The guys are battling. We've got to win games, and we're going to try as hard as we can. I expect this team to go out full bore and win. We'll never stop trying to do that.

Jim McKelvey

It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

It's the impression that the series of interest rate rises are nearer the end than the beginning, and people were bored after last year with the market flat on the year.

It started in '77 as just a rainy-day party, a bunch of friends, because we were bored and tired of the rain.

Andy Warhol

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.

David Sutcliffe

It's a lot of fun to be able to run around with guns and scream and yell and do the kind of FBI-cop kind of stuff, which is different than what I've been doing, which is kind of playing the boy-girl thing. Its always fun to kiss the pretty girl, but sometimes, amazingly, you can get bored with that, too.

In some ways, your Oscar speech is as important as the movie performance that got you the award. It's your chance to live forever in showbiz history. Or bore them to tears and come off as selfish and pampered.

Darrell Royal

I quit when I was 52, and everybody was telling me that I was too young and I'd be bored - all of those things.

Rob Lowe

I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.'

Bernard Hinault

If you were bored at this race it means you don't like cycling. Me, I'm never bored because there's always something interesting going on.

If you were to go back 20 years ago, the ships were trans-Atlantic liners, and people thought they'd be bored or confined on the ship.

I get bored when I don't have something to do. I've just got to be doing something.

Chuck D.

I get bored sitting at home and doing nothing. This will keep me occupied.

Matt Kemp

I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking, 'Something's not right, something's not feelin' right.' I just gotta do what I gotta do in Oklahoma and get back to the fast-paced city.

I get bored easily, I'm always doing something different,

Herbie Hancock

I get bored easily, but later I learned that it is OK to do something that others have done.

Tim O'Reilly

I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money.

Nicolas Cage

Classes were always a bore to me. I wanted to learn things on my own, not by presentations.I was a loudmouth and a clown. It came as a surprise to me, later, that I could be serious and still get attention.

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.

Friedrich Nietzsche

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Gelett Burgess

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

Erich Fromm

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

Erich Fromm

Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.

Erich Fromm

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

Erich Fromm

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

Erica Jong

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

I love the competition. I love staying active; when I don't have something to do I get really bored and I have to find something to do.

John Cale

I just get bored with what I'm doing. I like to switch. I did a lot of soundtrack work, and once I got that under my belt, I started writing songs.

Courtney Barnett

I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level.

Sy Montgomery

I heard one story about an octopus in a home tank who would get out, cruise around the house, take knick-knacks, and drag them back to its tank. Like a dog! They're so smart that there are octopus enrichment handbooks so you don't bore your octopus. I've seen them play with Legos, Mr. Potato Head, you name it!

Johan Bruyneel

I haven't spoken with him today, but it's nothing new. He started training three weeks ago and it shows he's getting a little bored with being retired.