Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Hillary

Boredom has always been a problem.

Edgar Degas

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

Edgar Degas

I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

Earl King

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

Augusten Burroughs

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

Cam Gigandet

I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

Cameron Diaz

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

Elizabeth I

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Eli Broad

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

Elias Canetti

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

Nancy Gibbs

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

Cybill Shepherd

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.

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.

Alfred Lunt

I can be bought, but not bored.

Ali Smith

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

Vikram Seth

I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

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.

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.