Bored Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

  Joey Ramone

  Junk, Groups, Generations

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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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• People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  People, Danger, Company

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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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• When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The examination as a test of the past is of no value for increased learning ability. Like all external motivators, it can produce a short term effect, but examinations for the purpose of grading the past do not hook a student on learning for life.

  Myron Tribus

  Teacher, Past, Purpose

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

  Larry Wall

  Boring, Call Me

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• I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar.

  Elena Tonra

  Guitar, Bits

  "Daughter (No 1,116)" by Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2011.

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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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• 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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• Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Crush, Heart, Mean

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• There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Boredom, Humanity, Quality

  1905 Heretics, ch.3.

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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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• As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.

  Lillian Gish

  Long, Curiosity, Curious

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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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• 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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• If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Feelings, Satisfied, Bores

  Giacomo Leopardi, Ángel Flores (1966). “Poems and prose”

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• If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Couple, Nice

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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 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, Forever, Want

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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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