Boring famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
-- A. N. Wilson -
No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.
-- A. R. Rahman -
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 -
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
-- Alan Bullock -
I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'
-- Alan Dershowitz -
To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
-- Alan Rudolph -
The boring side of business is what makes it work.
-- Alan Sugar -
Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it.
-- Alexis Bledel -
Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.
-- Alice Cooper -
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
-- Amy Poehler -
A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.
-- Andreas Feininger -
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people.
-- Angela Johnson -
There is nothing more boring than a bored person.
-- Arlene Francis -
It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
-- Asia Argento -
Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)
-- Austin Kleon -
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.
-- Barbara Hambly -
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.
-- Barry White -
I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
-- Beck -
The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.
-- Belinda Peregrin -
Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
-- Bill Ayers -
You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
-- Bill Murray -
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong -
I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.
-- Billy Childish -
No one will ever be as good at being you as you. So start there. Perfect is boring.
-- Brett Dalton -
I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.
-- Brian Bosworth -
Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.
-- Bryan Cranston -
The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.
-- Carolyn Murphy -
My sister thought about it for a few moments. "Well, that's boring," she said finally. "Why can't you read ***** of something fun that I could borrow?" I laughed. "Maybe later.
-- Cate Tiernan -
He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?
-- Cees Nooteboom -
Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
-- Charles Bukowski -
The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
-- Chinua Achebe -
I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.
-- Chita Rivera -
I hate going to fashion shows. I find them boring.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.
-- Chris Cuomo -
Without the edge, [life's] boring...If you're doing something that's definitely achievable with 100% odds of success, where's the draw in that?
-- Chris Guillebeau -
I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.
-- Chris Lilley -
The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
-- Christopher Lambert -
It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.
-- Clare Balding -
Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.
-- Clare Balding -
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
-- Clay Shirky -
I'm pretty boring with pizza toppings. I only ever eat margherita. If it's ever anything else then I'll just go 'mmm', pretend to eat it, then throw it in the bin.
-- Conor Maynard -
Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. Id rather be outdoors having fun.
-- Constance Jablonski -
In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.
-- Craig Ferguson -
It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.
-- Cynthia Payne -
Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
-- Daley Thompson -
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
-- Dan Abrams -
I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.
-- Daniel Baldwin -
I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.
-- Daniel Johns -
I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.
-- Daniel Woodrell -
There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.
-- David Eagleman -
That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you follow it, or you don't know much about it and you don't want to know.
-- David Plotz -
God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!
-- David Wilkerson -
They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.
-- David Wong -
in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.
-- Delia Ephron -
The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!
-- Diana Vreeland -
Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
-- Diana Vreeland -
Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
-- Diana Vreeland -
I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.
-- Diane Kruger -
Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.
-- Diane Kruger -
Cardio is boring for me, so running outside helps to keep me going.
-- Diego Klattenhoff -
You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.
-- Donatella Versace -
You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.
-- Donatella Versace -
Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?
-- Douglas Coupland -
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
-- Duane Michals -
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
-- E. V. Lucas -
The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.
-- Edith Massey -
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.
-- Edward Gorey -
If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
-- Edward Tufte -
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
-- Elias Canetti -
Your fear is the most boring thing about you.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
The only boring people I know are bored people.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.
-- Elton John -
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.
-- Emilie Autumn
