Boring Quotes - Page 15

• It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it.

  Colson Whitehead

  Couple, Firsts, Belief

  "Zone One". Book by Colson Whitehead, October 6, 2011.

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• I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there's no mystery. No privacy. And no sex, either. Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

  Myrna Loy

  Sex, Hate, Expression

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

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• So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it’s a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They always go and try to co-opt what they can’t own. They try to co-opt authenticity and turn it into something boring.

  Legs McNeil

  People, Giving, Trying

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• My life is actually very boring. The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.

  Jane Green

  Mom, Fun, Thinking

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• Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Football, Dear Lord, America

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• Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.

  W. H. Auden

  Silly, Interesting, Listening

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• I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

  Joss Stone

  Different, Littles, Strange

  "Joss Stone: 'I'm allowed to be me now'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. April 26, 2007.

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• Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

  Lori Gottlieb

  Running, Passion, Mean

  "Marry Him!" by Lori Gottlieb, www.theatlantic.com. March 2008.

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• I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.

  Michael Hutchence

  Hate, People, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?

  Cy Twombly

  Inspirational, Time, Art

  "What Makes art, Art?" by Amber Kane, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2016.

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• I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Passion, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. January 8, 2009.

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• Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to the accumulated memories in the brain cells? Perhaps many of you have not even asked such a question before, or if you have you may have said, "it's of very little importance- what is important is emotion." But I don't see how you can separate the two. If thought does not give continuity to feeling, feeling dies very quickly. So why in our daily lives, in our grinding, boring, frightened lives, has thought taken on such inordinate importance?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Memories, Taken, Cells

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• If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.

  Thomas Sowell

  Civilization, Vision, Arbitrary

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• I mean, sleeping with the same woman, night after night. Boring!

  Laura Kightlinger

  Mean, Sleep, Night

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• I slept with my mother until I was nine years old. It was OK for the first few years, and then I don't know what happened. I just couldn't do it anymore. I mean, sleeping with the same woman, night after night. Boring!

  Laura Kightlinger

  Mother, Mean, Sleep

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• Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Married

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Jobs, Reading

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• I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  World, Moderation, Middle

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• I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Thinking, Sin

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• I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

  Carla Bruni

  Talking, World, Interviews

  "Carla Bruni's revealing interview before she married President Nicolas Sarkozy" by Graham Brough, www.mirror.co.uk. March 29, 2008.

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• Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Kings, Missing

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.109, Penguin UK

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• Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and listen to the album, because I hate to be in a smoke-filled, loud room - that's not enjoyable for me at all...I always look up to guys who can sit and do dinner music...they're singing in tune and playing somebody else's music, and I don't think I could do that...it's the shittiest job in the world.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Jobs, Hate, Home

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• You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.

  Donatella Versace

  Would Be, Likes, Versace

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

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• You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

  Donatella Versace

  Seductive

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• What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

  Wendy Carlos

  Art, Lying, Discipline

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