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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.

  Andy Warhol

  Tired, Giving, Trying

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.41, MIT Press

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• I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Want, Boring

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• Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Boring, Exciting, Relevant

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• They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.

  Mick Jagger

  Believe, Writing, Bullshit

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• The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Dirty, Kids, Four

  Abbie Hoffman (1969). “Woodstock nation: a talk-rock album”

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• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Trying, Vitamins, Boring

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• Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, People, Bored

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• To me, video games aren't something as necessary as food or sleep, but they're just as important as delicious food, drinks, afternoon naps, walks, music, and sex (or masturbation). Not having them won't kill you, but without them, your life would be so boring you might as well be dead.

  Hidetaka Suehiro

  Sex, Sleep, Naps

  "Beer, Masturbation, And Twin Peaks: A Conversation With Swery65". Interview with Patrick Klepek, kotaku.com. May 1, 2015.

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• To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

  Omar Sharif

  Stupid, Directors, Etcetera

  "Omar Sharif: knave of hearts" by Tim Dowling, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2004.

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• In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out to be so stale, and so boring, and so backward compared to what had come just before. We were too young to have fully experienced the '60s and the fervor of the anti-war movement.

  Jello Biafra

  War, Ideas, Movement

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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