Bores You Quotes - Page 2

• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

  Andre Gide

  Annoyed, Literature, Want

  The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Work, Blessing, Boredom

  Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962

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• What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one? Bores are always anxious to be seen talking to you.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Talking, Giving, Vacuums

  "How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining".

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• Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  William Ralph Inge (1939). “Our present discontents”

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• I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Boredom, Principles

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Heaven, Hell, Bores

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• She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Moving, Thinking

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• If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

  Louise Brooks

  Knives, Bores, Ifs

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

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• We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

  Sheila Heti

  Men, Waste, Bores

  Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.9, Macmillan

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• We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.

  Brenda Ueland

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Library

  "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing, (Introduction), 1971.

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• I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Thieves, Way, Reason Why

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• The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Life, Work, Heaven

  W. E. B. Du Bois' address to his newborn great-grandson on his ninetieth birthday, 1958.

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• Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand, engages you, enthralls and satisfies you, it contributes to the meaning of your life

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Healing, Hands, Littles

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• I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

  Jacqueline du Pre

  Beautiful, Play, Feelings

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• One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and more dissatisfied with yourself and the world in general. Then even that feeling wears off, and you don't feel anything anymore. You become completely indifferent to what goes on around you... You forget how to laugh and cry - you're cold inside and incapable of loving anything or anyone... There's no going back... The disease has a name. It's called deadly tedium.

  Michael Ende

  Names, Laughing, Feelings

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• I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

  Harlan Coben

  Writing, Fire, Cavemen

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• If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

  David Mamet

  Actors, Scene, Audience

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• When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Music, Play, Silence

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• I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

  John Lennon

  Music, Clever, Fun

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 120), 2000.

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• I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."

  Johnny Carson

  Attitude, Boys, People

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying "I don't want to bore you with the details".

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.

  Emilio Pucci

  Running, World, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

  B. J. Chute

  Writing, Support You, Rocks

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• I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

  Elvis Presley

  Stories, Too Much, Life Story

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