Boring Quotes - Page 28

• I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.

  Frida Kahlo

  Faces

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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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• Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

  Steven Weinberg

  Reason Why, Reason, Particles

  Richard Phillips Feynman, Steven Weinberg (1999). “Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

  Douglas Coupland

  Choices, Stories, Our Lives

  "Generation A". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2009.

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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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• A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Perfect, World

  Andreas Feininger (1974). “The Perfect Photograph”

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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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• A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

  Ted Dekker

  Silence, Solitude, Empty

  Ted Dekker (2012). “The Paradise Trilogy”, p.514, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

  Prince Harry

  Funny, Children, People

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

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• Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

  Mario Puzo

  War, Suicidal, Gambling

  Mario Puzo (1977). “Inside Las Vegas”

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• Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume—to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term.

  Richard Florida

  Meaningful, Emotional, Long

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• From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Stars, Views, Molecules

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• Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.

  Marilyn

  Thinking, Imperfection, Genius

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• The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

  Diana Vreeland

  Talking, West

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.

  Diana Vreeland

  Age, My Birthday, Remember

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

  Anton Chekhov

  Destiny, People, Unhappy

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• I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?

  Alan Shearer

  Girl, Golf, Play

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• It does not bother me that some say I'm dull and boring because the people that do know me will tell you a different story. It is very difficult to be open with people you don't know. There is nothing I can do about the fact that the real me does not get across and it is probably difficult to know the real me.

  Alan Shearer

  Real, People, Dull

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• It [Dr Phil] was great. We had such a good time. Never a dull moment on set, considering the 18 kids. It never got boring.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Kids, Dr Phil, Drs

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• Success would be
  a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with
  a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No,
  success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning

  Chris Murray

  Would Be, Layers, Ingredients

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• Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world

  Rennie Ellis

  Photography, Would Be, Add

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• I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.

  Trisha Goddard

  Running, Morning, Hangover

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• The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.

  Edith Massey

  Sick, World, Boring Life

  "Fictional character: Aunt Ida". "Female Trouble", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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