If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees
I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?
Everyone has a secret. Right? Of course I have a secret. I think maybe you too?
I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.
A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.
Tony Bennett said to me, "Wow, your talent is amazing." Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said that to me, I didn't need anything more than that.
There's a thing when you're always working on something you really love, and this one we loved so much, it feels like you have a secret, and you can't wait to let people in on the secret. But at the same time, there's that moment where, "What if they get the secret and they think the secret is stupid?!"
travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.
Maybe it's just a humanising thing to realise that a ton of people in bands that make really exciting music, are just big nerds. And you know, maybe the Internet's done a lot in just exposing that long-held secret.
Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.