Bores Quotes - Page 16

• DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

  Alexa Chung

  Song, Fun, Phones

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• What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, Science, Moon

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• Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.

  Yukio Mishima

  Pain, Lying, Doubt

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• Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.

  Carole Keeton

  Law, Government, Care

  "Imagine a day without a Mexican" by Charles Garcia, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2012.

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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, Bores You, Laughing

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• "I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore."

  Donald Barthelme

  Two, Rivers, Smell

  "The King". Book by Donald Barthelme, p. 94, 1990.

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• Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

  Harold Nicolson

  Interesting, Persons

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• Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

  Burton Raffel

  Art, Real, Doe

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• I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Two, Long, People

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• The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Order, Lovely

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• If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Laughter, Tears

  Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.270, Open Road Media

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• Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel engaged in an important, even vital and personally ennobling mission; their task dominates all other considerations; and although such intense teams tend to remain intact only for a relatively short period of time, that time is remembered nostalgically and in considerable detail by its members.

  Jean Lipman-Blumen

  Team, Passion, Style

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• The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

  Saint Augustine

  Our World, Heaven, Saint

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• I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

  James Herbert

  Stories, Novel, Plans

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• To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Home, Hair

  "To Helen" l. 8 (1831)

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• There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry November day, a bittern that stays only long enough to be remembered.

  Ann Zwinger

  Nature, Long, Moss

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• Literature bores me, especially great literature

  John Berryman

  Literature, Great Literature

  John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan

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• The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

  Rob Brezsny

  Boredom, Commandments, Thyself

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.11, Frog Books

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• With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Boredom, Restless

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.784, Wordsworth Editions

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• The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

  William Wordsworth

  Thinking, Hair, Boredom

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.236

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• The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

  John Milton

  Lakes, Keys, Two

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 108

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• The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

  John Milton

  Country, Boredom, Dull

  John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

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• I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

  Adriana Trigiani

  Boys, Use, Cameras

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Forgiving, May, Fellowship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.79, SCM Press

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• I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

  Tayeb Salih

  Mother, Water, Naked

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