Being Bored Quotes - Page 2

• A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

  Bert Leston Taylor

  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  The So-Called Human Race (1922) p. 163

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• 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

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• If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Teacher, Children

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• If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

  Samuel Butler

  Bored, My Own, Saved

  "Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill".

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• Work is making a living out of being bored.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Bored, Making A Living

  "Is Karl Lagerfeld Retiring?" by Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 19, 2016.

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• Being bored is an insult to oneself.

  Jules Renard

  Funny, Humorous, Self

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

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• You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

  Lord Hailsham

  Boredom, Boring, Ashamed

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• I'm terrified of being bored and not learning.

  Alexa Chung

  Bored, Terrified

  "Alexa Chung: 'I don't know whether to be open and vulnerable'" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• I am terrified of being bored.

  Marie Antoinette

  Bored, Terrified

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• I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper

  Kevin Nealon

  School, Bored, Paper

  "Kevin Nealon On His New Special, The End Of ‘Weeds’ And His Worst Acting Experience". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.

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• ... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.

  Jane Heller

  Bored

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• 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

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• And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Beautiful, Girl, Wall

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Writing, Bored

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• And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

  Christian Bale

  Bored, Parent, Routine

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

  Cornelia Funke

  Clever, Powerful, Book

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• My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

  John Green

  Bored, Routine, Want

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.23, A&C Black

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• Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Bored, Complicated, Said

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• I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Men, Years

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.79, Vintage

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• Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being "cool." Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when you're cool. Hobbes: Look, I brought a sombrero! Now we can both be "cool." Calvin: A sombrero?! Are you crazy?! Cool people don't wear sombreros! Hobbes: What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

  Bill Watterson

  Fun, Crazy, Bores You

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• I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.

  Isabel Allende

  Practice, California, Bored

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• I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.

  Henry James

  Girl, Strong, Clever

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• Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Father, People, Grandparent

  "The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2003.

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• I was disappointed in Coop. He hated being bored and so did I. He was always looking for different things to do and coming up with new adventures that kept us moving. That was his job. Trolling for girls at the beach was okay by me, but I didn't want it to be our sole focus. Besides, the girls I liked had more interesting things to do than spend every waking moment sitting around at the beach comparing tans.

  D. J. MacHale

  Girl, Beach, Jobs

  D.J. MacHale (2010). “The Light”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot abide being bored.

  Felix Dennis

  Bored

  Felix Dennis (2013). “A Glass Half Full”, p.12, Random House

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