Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fernando Pessoa

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

Felicity Jones

I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.

Fiona Shaw

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Francoise Hardy

I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.

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.

Jewel

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

Jewel

I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

George Sanders

Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.

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.

Erica Jong

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

Gerald Brenan

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

I don't know if we were bored or what. We did just enough to win the game. We had too many mental lapses and defensive breakdowns.

My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.

Mary MacLane

One kind of man I impatiently scorn is the kind that looks bored if I mention Ibsen or ceramics or Aztec civilization but is interested instantly, alertly, if I mention my garters

Rick Tocchet

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

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.

Matthew Fox

Just because a middle-aged woman in a small Ontario town and a young gay man in a city have obvious differences doesn't mean they can't be extremely similar in terms of their existential lives, or in the way that they go about doing whatever it is they go about doing, be it sodomy or dusting, ... If you are bored with those activities, you may end up having similar reflections about them -- or they might be placeholders, or become obsessions.

Carrie Underwood

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

Bill Bryson

I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.

Bette Davis

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Steve Smith

I was really making fun of Red Fisher.... I called him the man who thought that nothing would bore you. He thought it was his job to fill the half hour, it was your job to make it interesting. And I thought, 'Oh boy, that's something I can do.' I took his character and started fooling around.

I was bored with it and just dropped out and went to work unloading semis by hand,

I was bored at one of the parties I was attending, and so pulled Kipling away from his friends and took him fishing. I was bored at one of the parties I was attending, and so pulled Kipling away from his friends and took him fishing.

Mostly they keep them put away, but if they get bored they might play a game or take a picture.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

Justin Chadwick

I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.

We figured they'd go to church, go out to lunch and then about 3 o'clock - once the young kids are bored - maybe they'd come to the ballpark. Looks like it worked.

We played real well in the first half, but then I think we got bored in the second half. Next week, we've gotta be ready.