Boring Quotes - Page 22

• ...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Smart, Knitting, Numbers

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2010). “Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again”, p.8, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

  Bob Seger

  Night, Play, Two

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• It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Song, Motivation, Reading

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• Here, whatever is not boring is not English.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Concerts

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.362, Courier Corporation

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• You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on where you go - what floor or what cellblock. For me, you go in, and you're just in with a bunch of other people who are in serving their time. You're just in there. It's just boring. You're in detention, essentially.

  Jayson Werth

  Taken, Thinking, Jail

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• Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

  Dave Lombardo

  Love, Thinking, Age

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• Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

  Julie Burchill

  Relationship, Possibility, Range

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

  Rob Brezsny

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.7, Frog Books

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• People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's day-to-day lives. Jesus spoke to the crowd with an interesting style. When God's Word is taught in an uninteresting way, people don't just think the pastor is boring, they think God is boring!

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Teaching, Past

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• I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

  Neil LaBute

  Betrayal, Men, Thinking

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• Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue - that would make for incredibly boring writing, at least to my taste. Creating someone I don't know and her made-up world shows us more about who we are - is actually a better mirror - than if I were to parade in front of you an instantly recognizable person in an instantly recognizable situation. I'm not saying, Let's make it all abstract and weird and difficult and thereby you will know more about yourself. My process is much more organic than that.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Writing, Thinking, Creating

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• Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

  Anthony Daniels

  Real, Technique, Watches

  "A Q&A with Anthony Daniels (C3PO), touring with 'Star Wars: In Concert'". Interview with Tom Keogh, www.seattletimes.com. October 12, 2009.

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• Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Sports, Technique, Karate

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

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• The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God.

  Woody Allen

  People, There Is No God, Feels

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• We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Ideas, Car

  "News: Kim and Kanye Having a Baby; Hillary Clinton Hospitalized" by Hadas Margulies, www.elle.com. December 31, 2012.

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• Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it really enjoyable to me is that every wave is different... there's a special, non-repetitive pleasure in it that never gets boring.

  Otis Chandler

  Expression, Surfing, Special

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• To make films is as boring as watching paint dry. You usually have to do tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

  Jenny Agutter

  Waiting, Energy, Here And There

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

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• I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.

  Lana Del Rey

  Regret, Writing, Ambition

  "Lana Del Rey has a problem with our interview ... but why?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2014.

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• We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

  Larry Page

  Moving, Opportunity, Thinking

  " Larry Page Wants Earth To Have A Mad Scientist Island" by Greg Kumparak, techcrunch.com. May 16, 2013.

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• A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Would Be, Paradise, Fantasy

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• It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Retirement, Names, Long

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• We hurry through the so-called boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting. Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that every thing in every moment is 'essential' and that nothing at all is 'important.'

  Helen M. Luke

  Order, Interesting, Important

  Helen M. Luke (2011). “The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine”, p.107, Image

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• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  Yann Tiersen

  Play, Gigs, Imagine

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• I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that's just me. That's how I live my life.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, People, Drug

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 1, 2006.

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• Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.

  Gunter Grass

  Hurt, Lying, Different

  "Gunter Grass speaks to Paris Review about art of fiction". Paris Review Interview, www.newsbangladesh.com. April 14, 2015.

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