Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Kirn

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

Keith Richards

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Dave Gahan

Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.

Srikumar Rao

Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.

Marilyn Monroe

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

William Ralph Inge

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Ira Glass

I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.

Ani Difranco

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

Alison Goldfrapp

You don't get bored making an album.

Andy Andrews

I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

Agatha Christie

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

Adriana Lima

I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.

Adam Levine

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

Bonnie Raitt

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.

Samuel Butler

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

Eric S. Raymond

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.

Kary Mullis

I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.

Harland Williams

I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.

Flip Saunders

Our guys have to be stimulated mentally. I've always said this team gets bored at times. When you're forced to react, forced to move, you don't really have a chance to maybe think about getting bored. You just go out and your instincts take over.

Some had high grades and were just bored out of their minds. They found no connection between the classroom and life and their career aspirations.

Rick Tocchet

Janet tells me he's bored out of his mind. He needs something to do.

Brittany Howard

I was a handful as a kid. I get bored easily. Now I'm pretty chill compared to back then. When I'm on the road, I watch Netflix and, at home, relax or fish.

I think after the 7-2 lead we got a little lackadaisical. We kind of rode the lead and it diminished pretty quickly. Then people start seizing up when the opportunity comes. Those are the types of things where you need to take control and take some leadership, and I'll take full bore for that.

Manisha Koirala

It is important we do not give this too much attention. Just as in the early days of the internet, porn was everywhere and later people got bored of it, interest in interest in this too will die a natural death.

Steve Coogan

I went on tour and I wouldn't say I was bored with the Perrier show but I started doing this stuff that wasn't as charming as the Perrier show.

J. Tillman

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

Ian really bore down. He got the outs when he needed them, he deserves a lot of the credit.

Alison Goldfrapp

But what's great about working with Will is that I was so bored of working with people who seemed to be much more interested in what was cool or fashionable. Will is very open-minded and even though he's classically trained, he's the only person I've ever met that I feel I can relate to musically. He understands how I think about music and vice-versa.

Susan Strasberg

My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.

Christopher Moore

The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get bored easily, so I generally throw something supernatural in. I would say they're humorous novels that have a supernatural bent, but that's as close as you're going to get to fitting them all in the same basket.

Quincy Jones

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?

Kent has never been one to stick with a lot of anything. He can do anything, but he gets bored too easily.