Bored Quotes - Page 33

• There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

  Rachel Carson

  Science, Quality, Earth

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

  Anita Loos

  Order, Bores, Humanitarianism

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• Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Hate, Giving, Waiting

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• In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.

  Beryl Markham

  Knights, Littles, Empires

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• Vermonters are not only charmless of manner, on the whole; they are also, as far as I can judge, utterly without pretence, and give the salutary impression that they don't care ten cents whether you are amused, affronted, intrigued, or bored stiff by them. Hardly anybody asked me how I liked Vermont. Not a soul said 'Have a nice day!

  Jan Morris

  Nice, Giving, Judging

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

  Elton John

  Records, Boring, Touring

  "A Q&A With Elton John". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 16, 2004.

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• I think fans get bored of the pre-roll. I also think they don't care about the pre-roll, they just want the album.

  Jack Antonoff

  Thinking, Want, Fans

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I think I would just get bored to be honest. Ask any human being if they want to stay in exactly the same job for thirty years they say "No!" The ultimate cliché, 'Variety is the spice of life', is sadly true.

  Doc Brown

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Lonely, Book, Reading

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• if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Next, Impossible, Bores

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.119, Jester House Publishing

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• Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

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• The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

  Jilly Cooper

  Running, Work, Reading

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• it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

  Jilly Cooper

  Ideas, Years, Waiting

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

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• I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

  Anita Roddick

  People, Bears, Bland

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

  Lena Dunham

  Dating, Losing Him, Argument

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.48, Random House

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• There is nothing more boring than a bored person.

  Arlene Francis

  Boring, Bores, Persons

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

  Jill Tweedie

  Change, Time, Children

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was endowed with a seriousness her years in the kitchen had denied her. She remained devoted to this seriousness for thirty years. She never tired of it, never grew bored or restless in its company, found new ways to keep alive the interest it deserved and had so undeniably earned.

  Vivian Gornick

  Father, Tired, Years

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• As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I dont let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

  Joel Parkinson

  Kids, Missing, Surfing

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• In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.

  Catherine Jinks

  School, Australian, Primaries

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• I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Needs, Busy, Juggling

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Being a sociologist means never having to be bored

  Randall Collins

  Mean, Sociologists

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• There are a lot of self important people who make you believe they're artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I've sat down and listened to them and just been bored.

  George Hamilton

  Believe, Self, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I know too much I get bored too fast.

  Nikki Sixx

  Too Much, Knows

  Source: lavidaleica.com

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• Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Facts, Nervous

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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