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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
If I talk to a new guy, it's because the old guy bores me, and I already wrote a bunch of songs about him.
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.
Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Literature bores me, especially great literature
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's
all.
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.
I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability to - why don't we change this a little bit and bring it back to the script. You always discover things while shooting.
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.
I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.
I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
I know how important it is to drink water, but plain H2O bores me to death, so I inevitably end up dehydrated.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.
Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.
Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibre, so I must make it sound as though it is. If it bores me, it certainly won't please an audience.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one? Bores are always anxious to be seen talking to you.
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.
I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.
Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
I want to be the first person to animate bags - everything done for handbags bores me to tears - I want to make it more playful.
I like to have fun! And everything that's good for you is not fun, and that bores me.
Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.
Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry November day, a bittern that stays only long enough to be remembered.
