Bored Quotes - Page 3

• Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

  Bill Blass

  Fashion, Eye, Style

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• To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Doctors, Waiting, Actors

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• I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Writing, Doe, Knows

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• I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

  Bill Mumy

  Different, Lucky, Territory

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• If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don't get bored, we don't have frustrations.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Fun, Frustration, Enjoy Life

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• You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

  Boris Vallejo

  Clothes, Knowing, Machines

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• I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.

  Glenn Close

  Talking, I Can

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

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Hands, Lazy

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• You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Ideas, Differences

  "Where do you get your ideas?" by Neil Gaiman, www.neilgaiman.com. 1997.

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• The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sight, World, Distress

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• I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Chameleon

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

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• Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Time, Boredom, Faces

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.100, Verso

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• That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

  Stephen Rea

  Acting, Want, Cameras

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• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Fear, Bores You

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• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Boredom, Fascination, Sides

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• I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

  Voltaire

  Real, Book, Evil

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.103, Penguin

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• Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

  Margaret George

  Archery, Medicine, Boredom

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• There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, Time, Morning

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, 1964.

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• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro

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• Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Inspirational, Funny, Music

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• I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?

  Cy Twombly

  Inspirational, Time, Art

  "What Makes art, Art?" by Amber Kane, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2016.

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• Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

  Mario Testino

  Fashion, People, Perfection

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• Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals

  Walter Lewin

  Teacher, Learning, Criminals

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• Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

  Cecil Beaton

  Boredom, World, Firsts

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• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

  Renata Adler

  Sleep, Blessing, Boredom

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