Bored Quotes - Page 19

• Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

  Miuccia Prada

  Light, Shopping, Why Not

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

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• I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Mean, Guitar

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• There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Women, Virtuous Woman, Chastity

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• I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.

  Tim Roth

  Brother, Father, Real

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• I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Tunnels, Light

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• I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 9, 2012.

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• 'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

  Rob Sheffield

  Character, Debt, Patterns

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• I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.

  Rod Stewart

  Girl, Feelings, Affectionate

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• I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Thinking, Years

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• I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

  Carrie Underwood

  Attention, Attention Span

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• Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

  Diana Vreeland

  Would Be, Becoming, Imagine

  Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

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• How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

  Al Yankovic

  Cheer, Laughing, Audience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

  Rob Zombie

  Moving, Sound, Watches

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• Whatever movies I sign, they have to get me out of my comfort zone. Otherwise, I would get bored very easily.

  Vir Das

  Comfort, Comfort Zone, Zone

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• I cannot abide being bored.

  Felix Dennis

  Being Bored

  Felix Dennis (2013). “A Glass Half Full”, p.12, Random House

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• You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

  Felix Dennis

  Dying

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• Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Father, People, Grandparent

  "The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2003.

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• A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.

  Nick Hornby

  Death, Sorry, Fighting

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• Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Roots, Evil

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• A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.

  George Saunders

  Elderly, Land, Games

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• We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Machines, Next, Stairs

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.45, Macmillan

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• A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began

  Steven Morrissey

  Real, Hands, Long

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• I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.

  Henry James

  Girl, Strong, Clever

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• For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Makeup, Years, Shoes

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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

  Boring, Moments, Enchanted

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

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