Bores Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

  Paul Theroux

  Mean, Past, Lessons

  "America the Overfull". www.nytimes.com. December 31, 2006.

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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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• Faith is not our saviour. It was not faith that was born at Bethlehem and died on Golgotha for us. It was not faith that loved us, and gave itself for us; that bore our sins in its own body on the tree; that died and rose again for our sins. Faith is one thing, the Saviour is another. Faith is one thing, and the cross is another. Let us not confound them, nor ascribe to a poor, imperfect act of man, that which belongs exclusively to the Son of the Living God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Son, Men, Rose

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.110

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• Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Bears

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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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• Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Fighting, Fire

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, People, Justice

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• if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Bored, Next, Impossible

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.119, Jester House Publishing

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• I try not to bore my readers.

  Jackie Collins

  Trying, Reader

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• As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

  Julian of Norwich

  Mother, Jesus, Pain

  Julian of Norwich (1985). “Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich”, Templegate Pub

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• They, the holy ones and weakly,
  Who the cross of suffering bore,
  Folded their pale hands so meekly,
  Spake with us on earth no more!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hands, Suffering, Earth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

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