A Quote by Derek Landy

While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.

Derek Landy

Quote Topics

Boredom Business Either Good Good Reason Like May Out Personal Reason Rotten Sheer Someone Still While

Quote Author

Derek Landy
Irish - Author
Born: October 23, 1974

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

Michael Ian Black

When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's no different from other vegetables. But when an onion goes bad, it can either do it from the inside, or the outside. So sometimes you see one that looks good, but the core is rotten. Other times, you can see a bad spot on it, but if you cut that out, the rest is fine. Tastes sharp, but that's what you paid for, isn't it?

Steven Brust

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

Jason Isbell

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

Alexander McCall Smith

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

Sarah Dunant

A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years.

Michael Greger

In USA, a black man only have like five years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong, while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. 'Cause once you turn 30, it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man, in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more.

Tupac Shakur

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

Bertrand Russell

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Robin Hobb

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

Robert Farrar Capon

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

Christian Siriano

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

Christian Siriano

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

Erica Jong

If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.