Bored Quotes - Page 10

• I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

  Dominic West

  Mother, Dad, Thinking

  "Down to The Wire with Dominic West". Intervie with Sara Bliss, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2006.

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• The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

  Criss Jami

  Yawning, People, Cynic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.115, Criss Jami

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• I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

  Criss Jami

  Baseball, Children, Drinking

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• If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Goal, Unhappy, Anticipation

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• For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sea, Soul, Answers

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• Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

  Kate Mara

  Want

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

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• Aside from performing in 'Peepshow,' I do yoga once a week and I like Pilates. I'm more into toning exercises over aerobics. I like working with a trainer at a private gym, but I also like going with friends because you don't get bored or distracted.

  Holly Madison

  Yoga, Exercise, Pilates

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• When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.

  Markus Zusak

  Growing Up, Father, House

  FaceBook post by Markus Zusak from Jan 27, 2012

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• You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.

  Eva Brann

  Mean, Unity, Becoming

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• I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

  Ali Smith

  Want, Being Bored, I Can

  Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.252, Penguin UK

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• I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

  Nancy Mitford

  People, Sometimes

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

  Criss Jami

  Lonely, Solitude, Duration

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Dirty, School, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

  Zoe Kazan

  Self, Tendencies, Worst

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• I get bored really easily. I get bored with people really easily. I get bored with routine easily. I don’t like things that are average, or normal. I care if I have the best – in the world about that - just wanting that great light that everybody looks at and goes ‘Ahhh’. I feel like that’s what I’ve found in my partner.

  Susan Downey

  Light, Average, People

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• An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Imbeciles, Contemplating

  Remy de Gourmont (1928). “Remy de Gourmont: Selections from All His Works”

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• Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Jobs, Book, Character

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• As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

  Stephen Daldry

  Know How, Knows

  "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

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• I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

  Stephen Daldry

  Needs, Three, Break

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• I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

  Stephen Daldry

  Hate, People, Trying

  "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

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• This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

  Rick Warren

  Ideas, Important, Three

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.27, Zondervan

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• It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.

  David Berg

  Thinking, Years, Cities

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• If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Painting, Week, Ifs

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• Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

  Winston Churchill

  Hands, Boredom, Paint

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Father, Latin, Hymns

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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