Bored Quotes - Page 35

• And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Doe, Watches

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

  Ben Falcone

  Kids, House, Figures

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• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  F. Sionil José

  Listening, Want, Poet

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• I can be bought, but not bored.

  Alfred Lunt

  I Can

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• Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

  Hugh Howey

  Book, Twelve, Stories

  "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, And Success". Interview with Eric Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Book

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• I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

  Chris Lilley

  Dark, Tears, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Song, Performing, Comes And Goes

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• I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me.

  Tim Rice

  Hate, Talking, Interviews

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• I'm convinced people are bored of generic travel

  Matt Prior

  People, Generic, Convinced

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• After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

  Yuichiro Miura

  Men, Years, Would Be

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• In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

  Emily Oster

  Humans

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• I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

  Robert Webb

  Thinking, Comedy, Imagine

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• There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

  Peter Temple

  Careers, Want Something, People

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• I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

  Kit Reed

  Should, Tropes, Reluctance

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• My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun.

  John Cheever

  New York, Loss, Cities

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

  Inio Asano

  Lying, World, Weirdness

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• I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Complaining, Boring, Grew Up

  "The beatnik turned natural birth expert". Interview with Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.

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• I'm good at being on my own. As a kid, I was always in my room alone, so I have a high threshold for it. If I'm bored, I'll read. Hanging around doesn't go well with me.

  John Simm

  Kids, Rooms, Threshold

  "John Simm: this much I know" by Olly Richards, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• A girl who pays attention is very cool. It's really hard to pay attention to someone. I understand. I get it. I get bored a lot when I'm talking to people, but I try. So I'd like for the girl to try, too.

  Chris D'Elia

  Girl, Talking, People

  "Whitney's Chris D'Elia Is Back With More Relationship Advice". Interview with Annie Gabillet, www.popsugar.com. February 14, 2012.

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• A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Boredom, Looks

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

  Charles Baudelaire

  France, Conformity

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• Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

  Gelett Burgess

  Needs, Action, Irritated

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• The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

  Maureen Dowd

  Political, Insane, Celebrate

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• Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored.

  O. J. Simpson

  Lonely, Kids, Wife

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