Bores Quotes - Page 24

• I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

  Rae Dawn Chong

  Mind, Good Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Loss, Reality, Years

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• It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

  David Hewson

  Home, Long, Sometimes

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• Well, I looked my demons in the eyes
  laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me.
  You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times,
  I must admit you kind of bore me.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Eye, Hell And Back, Kind

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• They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.

  Charlize Theron

  Character, People, Looks

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• A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Kids, Upset

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• I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.

  Rachel Johnson

  Regret, Mistake, Coffee

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• If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Writing, Bores You, Ems

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, Harper Collins

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• Some drill and bore
  The solid earth, and from the strata there
  Extract a register, by which we learn,
  That he who made it, and reveal'd its date
  To Moses, was mistaken in its age.

  William Cowper

  Science, Age, Earth

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.151

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• It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his face, reflected on the inside cylindrical surface of the bore while inside an MRI (magnetic-resonance-imaging) machine-a device made possible by his early physical researches on nuclear magnetic resonance (1938).

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Science, Eerie, Nuclear

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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Party, Humor

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.68, Knopf

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• People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Class, People, Boredom

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• If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

  Francois Fenelon

  Bores You, Ease, Amusement

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• If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Crosses, Willing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 170), 1895.

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• Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

  Susan Jacoby

  Art, Real, Women

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• Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

  William Osler

  Fleeting, Dodge, Minutes

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• One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.

  Lee Krasner

  Men, Squares, Goes On

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press

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• The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.

  John Shelby Spong

  Biblical, Two Sides, Justice

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• Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

  Rene Magritte

  Boredom, Painting, Habit

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• Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Today, Spirit

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• Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Accessories, Landscape, Figures

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• The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Art, Hands

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• O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Years, Land, Giving

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• For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.

  Robert Herrick

  Eye, Brave, Bees

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.254

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• I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.

  Gordie Howe

  Wife, Healthy, Michigan

  Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

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