Bored Quotes - Page 13

• "I am bored" generally means "I am boring."

  Dennis Prager

  Character, Mean, Boring

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

  Walker Percy

  Dog, Sleep, Men

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.

  Thom Yorke

  Song, Can Do, Ifs

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• 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, Childhood

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• Warning signs that lover is bored:
  1. Passionless kisses
  2. Frequent sighing
  3. Moved, left no forwarding address.

  Matt Groening

  Kissing, Warning, Addresses

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• ...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ideas, Kind, Illness

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wise, Brother, Wine

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• Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

  Larry Wall

  Boring, Call Me

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• 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

  Needs, Half, Way

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• The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Boring, Bores, Being Bored

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• Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

  John Green

  Writing, Attention, Stories

  "Evening Of Awesome: John Green At Carnegie Hall" by Zoë Triska, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2013.

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• I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Artist, Sick, Littles

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• Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

  Aimee Bender

  Struggle, Writing, Character

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• Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Children, Flower

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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Bothering You, Hands

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• The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

  Scott Caan

  Movie, Writing, Kind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.

  Jessica Valenti

  Scandal, Tvs, Obsessed

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• I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Thinking, Watches

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• The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Jobs, Hands

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.116, Hachette UK

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Feelings, Unanswered Questions, Sober

  Song: Come Away From It, Album: Up Up Up Up Up Up

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• I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

  Eli Broad

  Bankers, Lawyer, My Time

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• I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Might, Juxtaposition

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.

  Mary Roach

  Fun, Book, Kids

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• Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.

  Chris Noth

  Order, Years, Law

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get bored in Hollywood.

  Rosie Perez

  Hollywood

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