Bores Quotes - Page 5

• Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

  Wayne Dyer

  People, Boredom, Life Is

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations

  Thomas Hood

  Congratulations

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• The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, Boredom, Mind

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• Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Topics, Conversation, Faster

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• Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Feelings, Culture

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.

  Bill Murray

  People, Acting, World

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

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• My father announced early on that he didn't want his sons to be "country club bums." And for a number of reasons, I bore the brunt of that - I have an older brother and two younger brothers. So he had me work in all my spare time. I started out picking dandelions, shoveling stalls, milking cows, building a fence - whatever dirty job was out there. That's a big deal, because you learn things working that you don't learn in school.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Brother, Jobs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

  Mario Puzo

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Humanity, Illusion, Communism

  Corriere della Sera Magazine, March 09, 2006.

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• If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Men, Population

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• The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Past, Moon, Blue

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

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• The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Boredom, Inability, Use

  Wayne W. Dyer (1977). “Your erroneous zones”

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• Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

  Douglas Horton

  Reflection, People, Boredom

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• So much of what I am doing in my fiction is just trying to get into interesting places in terms of language or form, places that don't bore me. And this happens via hundreds of quick micro-decisions that are done "to taste," so to speak. So the experience is one of groping toward that interesting place - trying to leap away from anything that seems boring, or about which I don't have strong opinions. Essentially trying to avoid that moment where, devoid of any strong feeling, I start conceptualizing.

  George Saunders

  Strong, Interesting, Decision

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.

  Truman Capote

  Hated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Thinking, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.124

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• He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Food, Book

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• Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them.

  Steven Heighton

  Writing, Luck, May

  "Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing". Book by Steven Heighton, 2011.

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• In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Dark, Sacrifice

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.27, Vintage

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• Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond to the energy that the story is making rather than having a big over plan. I think if you have a big over plan, the danger is that you might just take your plan and then you bore everybody. I always joke that it's like going on a date with index cards. You know, at 7:30 p.m. I should ask about her mother. You keep all the control to yourself but you are kind of insulting to the other person.

  George Saunders

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Views, Boredom, Enlightened

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• For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

  James Herriot

  Lunch, Years, Wife

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, "Time Magazine", December 12, 2002.

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• Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

  Alan Bennett

  Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Illness

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Untold Stories”, p.473, Faber & Faber

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• Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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