So Boring Quotes

• Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Garden, Eden, Apples

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

  Edward Gorey

  Writing, Thinking, Boredom

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• Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

  Hugh Grant

  Life Is, Boring, Embarrassing

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

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• It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Boring, Knows

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• Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

  Charlaine Harris

  Interesting, Fiction, Boring

  "Dead As A Doornail: A True Blood Novel". Book by Charlaine Harris, July 30, 2009.

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• Doing the same thing day in, day out. It's just so boring. I like to jump from different things.

  Michelle Ryan

  Different, Boring, Different Things

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• I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Hate, Bad Ass, Boring

  "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman". Book by James Gleick, 1992.

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• Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

  Jules Renard

  People, Waste, Boring

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• So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!

  Mitch Albom

  Dresses, Boring, Feels

  Mitch Albom (2007). “For One More Day”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

  Dave Attell

  Reality, Imagination, Life Is

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 19, 2003.

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• I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Boring, Comfortable, Discussing

  "Daniel Radcliffe Talks Broadway, Post -'Harry Potter' Life" by Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. March 14, 2011.

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• I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.

  Rob Portman

  Boring, Staff, Knows

  "Rob Portman said to be on short list for Romney vice president" by Michael Leahy, www.politico.com. May 23, 2012.

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• My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.

  Roz Chast

  Eye, Brain, Life Is

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• A lot of people work really diligently to maintain a "profile" in the writing world, but that's so hard, and so boring most of the time. So you just keep doing what you like to do, I guess, and try to enjoy it.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, People, Trying

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• I think there's much more privileging of the new in art. I think people want to think they privilege the new in writing, but I agree with Virginia Woolf. She wrote a great essay called "Craftsmanship" about how difficult it is to use new words. It's really hard, but you see them coming in because obviously, if you're going to write... I mean, even to write "cell phone" in a novel - it's so boring.

  Lynne Tillman

  Art, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s so boring. It’s the opposite of creativity. Rules are ridiculous things that are meant to be broken.

  Philip Treacy

  Hate, Creativity, Opposites

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• It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

  Ann Beattie

  Order, Diaries, Problem

  Ann Beattie (2011). “Picturing Will”, p.237, Vintage

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• 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'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring!

  Kathleen Hanna

  Country, Girlfriend, Writing

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• I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, Interesting, Want

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• I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.

  Bill Bryson

  Bored, Boring, Moments

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.43, VNR AG

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• The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

  Kristen Stewart

  Twilight, Insane, Want

  Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

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• Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.

  Celia Green

  Simple, People, Secret

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1981). “Advice to clever children”

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• You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

  Rafael Nadal

  Play, Focus, Trying

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• Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.

  January Jones

  Sweet, Fun, Thinking

  "There's nothing fun about being sweet" by John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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