Bored famous quotes

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

#Islamic #Appreciate #Bored

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored
-- Adam Levine

#Bored #Misunderstood #Quiet

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
-- Adam McKay

#White #Bored #Dollars

I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.
-- Adriana Lima

#Bored #Work Out #Aggression

If I am not moving I get bored very easily.
-- Adriana Lima

#Moving #Bored

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.
-- Agatha Christie

#Long #Bored #Enough

Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu
-- Ai Yazawa

#Wind #Snow #Bored

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
-- Aidan Chambers

#Bored #Doing Nothing #Boring

How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
-- Al Yankovic

#Cheer #Laughing #Bored

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
-- Alan Hirsch

#Christian #Bored #Church

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
-- Alan Rickman

#Talking #Bored #Actors

I never get bored of my wife. It's lovely.
-- Alan Titchmarsh

#Bored #Wife #Lovely

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god?  And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment - from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies - how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?
-- Alan Watts

#Eye #Jewels #Bored

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
-- Aldous Huxley

#Determination #Bored #Majority

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning,
-- Alexa Chung

#Bored

I would get very bored if I just did one thing.
-- Alexa Chung

#Bored

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Bored #Desire #Hungry

If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert

#Goal #Bored #Unhappy

I can be bought, but not bored.
-- Alfred Lunt

#Bored

I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.
-- Alfred Molina

#Jobs #Thinking #Bored

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.
-- Ali Smith

#Bored #Want

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#People #Bored #Worms

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.
-- Amanda Bynes

#Ideas #Bored #Forever

I am most scared of being bored
-- Amanda Seyfried

#Bored #Scared

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it
-- Amber Tamblyn

#Past #Bored #Democracy

Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.
-- Amy Dickinson

#Children #Women #Bored

Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?
-- Amy Dickinson

#Women #People #Bored

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).
-- Amy Dickinson

#Women #Book #Bored

I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.
-- Ana Gasteyer

#Years #Bored #Done

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!
-- Andre Breton

#Stupid #Bored #Age

I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Mean #Thinking #Bored

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#People #Bored #Danger

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Bored #Quality #Special

When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.
-- Andrew Dice Clay

#Moving #Doors #Bored

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Bored #Use

When I get bored, I get into trouble.
-- Angie Harmon

#Bored #Trouble

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?
-- Ani DiFranco

#Bored #Feelings #Unanswered Questions

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
-- Anita Loos

#Order #Bored #Bores

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
-- Anjelica Huston

#Running #Ambition #Bored

I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show...
-- Anna Gavalda

#Thinking #Talking #Bored

In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.
-- Anthony Jeselnik

#Class #Bored #Down And

There is nothing more boring than a bored person.
-- Arlene Francis

#Bored #Boring #Bores

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.
-- Arnold Bennett

#Men #Doors #Bored

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.
-- Art Bell

#Talking #Bored #Week

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
-- Arthur Helps

#Boredom #Bored #Dying

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

#Bored #Machines #Next

When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.
-- Ben Falcone

#Kids #Bored #House

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Wine #Bored #So Bored

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
-- Bernadette Devlin

#Horse #Bored #Silence

In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
-- Beryl Markham

#Knights #Bored #Sage

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.
-- Beth Ditto

#Mean #People #Bored

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
-- Bette Davis

#Bored #Tears #Pals

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
-- Bill Blass

#Fashion #Eye #Bored

It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
-- Bill Joy

#Tired #Bored

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.
-- Bill Mumy

#Bored #Different #Lucky

I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. … I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,’ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.
-- Billy Wilder

#Bored #Moved On #Made

Conclusion 2: There's nothing more demonic than two bored twins. ~Signed Tamaki
-- Bisco Hatori

#Two #Bored #Twins

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

#Errors #Bored #Solutions

I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
-- Bo Burnham

#Bored #Needs #Half

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored
-- Bob Dylan

#Bored #Trying #Want

Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.
-- Bob Saget

#Talking #People #Bored

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
-- Boris Vallejo

#Clothes #Knowing #Bored

I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.
-- Brad Garrett

#Thinking #Bored #Schedules

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
-- Brian P. Cleary

#Kids #Laughing #Bored

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

#Long #Bored #Goes On

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

#Bored #Kind

Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.
-- Carl Cohen

#Government #People #Bored

Guys can get bored easily.
-- Carmen Electra

#Bored #Guy

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.
-- Carol Vorderman

#Two #Bored #Earth

Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?
-- Caroline Dhavernas

#Bored #Just Being #Littles

Get bored with your past, it's over!
-- Caroline Myss

#Past #Bored #Your Past

I can't remember the last time I was bored.
-- Carolyn Murphy

#Bored #Lasts #Remember

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.
-- Carolyn Murphy

#Bored #Boring #Feels

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Bored #Stressed #Irritated

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Doctors #Bored #Waiting

In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.
-- Catherine Jinks

#School #Bored #Primary School

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.
-- Chad Everett

#Giving #Bored #Feelings

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Fate #Winter #Bored

Only the boring get bored
-- Charles Bukowski

#Bored #Boring

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
-- Charles Dickens

#Bored #Bored To Death

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.
-- Charlie Parker

#Play #Bored #Alive

I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.
-- Chester Brown

#Past #Bored #Stuff

I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit. I chose the messed up characters because I find that that's acting. I want to explore emotions that you otherwise wouldn't be able to explore.
-- Chloe Grace Moretz

#Character #Bored #Acting

When I get a fringe, it's because I'm bored or need a change; I always regret it!
-- Chloe Sevigny

#Regret #Bored #Needs

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
-- Chris Lilley

#Dark #Bored #Tears

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Life #Optimistic #Bored

If you are bored with Berkeley, you are bored with life.
-- Clark Kerr

#Bored #Berkeley

People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted
-- Claude C. Hopkins

#Bored #People #Personality

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.
-- Cliff Burton

#Bored #Burn Out

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.
-- Clive Barker

#Kids #Bored #Imagination

I retired when I was 30 and I was bored shitless.
-- Clive Palmer

#Bored #Retired

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.
-- Compay Segundo

#Bored #Desire #Limits

The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking.
-- Craig Clevenger

#Knowing #Talking #Bored

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
-- Criss Jami

#Lonely #Bored #Solitude

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
-- Criss Jami

#Yawning #People #Bored

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

#Bored #Together #Privilege

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)
-- Dale Dauten

#Moving #Bored #Mind

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
-- Danny Boyle

#Holiday #Cities #Bored

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.
-- Darrell Royal

#Sports #Bored #Guy

I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd chalk it up to that narcissistic personality disorder laces with a smidgen of schizophrenia. Your mother would be proud.
-- Darynda Jones

#Mother #Bored #Childhood