Bores Quotes - Page 23

• The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean-when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

  Henry Miller

  Lying, Mean, Men

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• Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

  Thomas Moore

  Jewels, Hands, Gold

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'Rich and rare were the gems she wore'

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• Sometimes when my fans come up to me, they think it's going to be entertaining, like I'm going to tell jokes or do bits, and then instead of that I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, "This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else." I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, Talking, Fans

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind.

  James C. Scott

  Discipline, Bored, Political

  Source: www.gastronomica.org

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• I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying "I don't want to bore you with the details".

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."

  Johnny Carson

  Attitude, Boys, Bores You

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.

  Margot Asquith

  People, Faces

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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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• The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.

  Anna Komnene

  Wall, Knights, Way

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• Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Horse, Long, Leaving

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• The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

  Steven Spielberg

  Wake Up, Scared, Film

  Steven Spielberg, Lester D. Friedman, Brent Notbohm (2000). “Steven Spielberg: Interviews”, p.112, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

  Emily Post

  Polite, Alas, Rounds

  EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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• I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Perfect

  "Civil Disobedience". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Knowing, People, Helping

  Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• You're a bore, I said to me. You're puny. You're lacking in quality, like a pair of factory-rejected Fruit of the Loom shorts. And this was without considering any sexual problems, since I've never had sex with anyone except myself.

  Paul Zindel

  Sex, Quality, Pairs

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• One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Coats, Way, Evening

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.753, Modern Library

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• A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

  Tana French

  Girl, Personality, Brain

  Tana French (2010). “Faithful Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 3”, p.136, Hachette UK

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• This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Men, Risk, Mind

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• All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

  Jean Renoir

  Photography, Artist, Perfect

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• I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore

  Deepa Mehta

  Drama, Hate, Years

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• The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.

  Robert Graves

  Writing, Mean, Way

  Robert Graves, Paul O'Prey (1995). “Collected writings on poetry”, Carcanet Pr

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• I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh or Kathryn Bigelow that didn't really need me - and I've produced both of them. It's fun to sit around with them and be collegial, but they don't need me. They can make the film without me. I make my own stuff. There are tons and tons of other things I'm interested in that have nothing to do with movies or are documentary projects.

  James Cameron

  Fun, People, Needs

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Rewards, Fruit, Speak

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.198

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• Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Fighting, Boredom

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Wayne (2004). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes what One is; The Antichrist: a Curse on Christianity”, p.152, Algora Publishing

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