Bored Quotes - Page 28

• Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.

  Jessica Zafra

  Angry

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.

  Francoise Hardy

  Enough Time, Enough

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• Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Otters, Giving

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• I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

  Vir Das

  Comedian, Routine, Gone

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• Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Errors, Programmers, Solutions

  Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books

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• Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room for ten hours with those characters. Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters you’ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling. If not, your reader will be bored and leave.

  Po Bronson

  Book, Reading, Character

  "Advice on Writing". www.pobronson.com.

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• You never get bored with God in action.

  Loren Cunningham

  Action

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• One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It only comes in sufficient amounts in particular places, at certain times on this earth; it lasts only a limited amount of time before sun and wind changes it. People devote their whole lives to it for the pleasure of being so purely played by gravity and snow.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Wind, Sky, People

  Dolores Lachapelle (1984). “Earth Wisdom”, Finn Hill Art

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• A Christian is never bored or sad. Rather, the one who loves Christ is full of joy and radiates joy.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Joy, Christ

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• People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted

  Claude C. Hopkins

  People, Personality, Dinner Table

  Claude C. Hopkins (2010). “Scientific Advertising”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?

  Bill Watterson

  Men, Doe, Purpose

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• Remy Cabella, I think he deserves something else than Newcastle. I wouldn't go there. You must get bored s***less in Newcastle.

  Louis Nicollin

  Football, Thinking, League

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• We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.

  Ed O'Brien

  Hate, Tired, Thinking

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• I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

  William Allen White

  Life, Morning, Eye

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• You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• There are 49 guys that got bored to sleep on my record, so they got knocked out by it.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Sleep, Guy

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• I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't wait to get up in the morning and look awful. I'm looking forward to getting bored.

  Celine Dion

  Morning, Reading, Book

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• If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.

  Serena Williams

  Queens, Drama, Winning

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• The only boring people I know are bored people.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  People, Boring, Knows

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• Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on the edge, which is precisely what is needed to be successful and remain successful.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, People, Creative

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.

  Sarah Palin

  Lying, Annoying, Internet

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• The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Thinking, Guy

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

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• I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

  Derek Sivers

  Ideas, Trying, Needs

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• Nothing that comes and goes is you.
  
  'I am bored.' Who knows this?
  
  'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this?
  
  You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Knowing, Comes And Goes, Stillness Speaks

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.19, New World Library

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• When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying.

  Peter Lynch

  Buying, Analysts

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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