Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

Tommy Chong

Boredom is a disease, too.

Joaquin Phoenix

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

John C. Reilly

I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.

Edie Sedgwick

I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

Henri Matisse

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

Henry James

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Helena Bonham Carter

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

Hans Zimmer

The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, "Okay, let's throw everything out that we had before and let's just see it as an autonomous movie, and let's just start again."

Maria Bello

At first I didn't know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly.

They usually start one company and keep it. Innovators tend to start three companies in a lifetime because they get bored and they want to start over again.

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.

Tim Henman

There were times in 2005 when I was sick of tennis but I looked at it in the context of over 20 years competing. My school holidays used to be about which tournaments I'd play in. It's human nature to get just a little bored with it and that is the first time it had happened to me.

Mike Matheny

They're probably going to get bored with me because I'm going to start giving them pretty much plain, drab answers, just premeditated boring stuff.

Stacy Keach

It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again.

Salman Khan

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.

It's so wide; that's what I love most about my career. It's been varied, and the music has been varied, because I find myself getting bored pretty easily. So for me, to work in the studio has been great. I didn't go on the road; I just worked on a different project every day, a different kind of music, and that's the challenge I love.

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.

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

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.

Paul Horn

It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

Ian Harding

If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.

Curtis Sittenfeld

What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

David Bowie

Never bored, so I'll never get old