Boring Quotes - Page 24

• People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Years, People, Society

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

  Steven Moffat

  Drama, Would Be, Certain

  "The new Doctor Who: Steven Moffat and Matt Smith". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2010.

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• A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.

  Denis Dutton

  Wall, Years, Bills

  "Denis Dutton dies; author, philosopher, brother to L.A. booksellers" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 28, 2010.

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• The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

  J. G. Ballard

  Soul, Planets

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

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• Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

  Maya Angelou

  Tragedy, Matter, Caught

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.894, Modern Library

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• Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Work, Games, Play

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

  Jane Wagner

  Doe, Affair, Tolerate

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• I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

  Roger Ebert

  Long, Praise, Critics

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.441, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Names, People, Drunk

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• Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

  Duane Michals

  Use, Painting, Photograph

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• I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

  A. N. Wilson

  Belief

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• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  Ian Anderson

  Blue, Denim, Awful

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• I'm more boring and more conservative.

  John Malkovich

  Conservative

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• Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?

  James Alan Gardner

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts would each become a painting. I cannot properly explain it right now. Already now I am searching for the most boring and irrelevant photo material that I can find. And I would like to get to the point soon where this determined irrelevance could be retained, in favor of something that would be covered up otherwise by artifice.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Cutting, Irrelevance

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• What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any addition, to operate immediately and directly. Even at the risk of being boring. Mere demonstration. The mirrors, and even more the Panes of Glass, were also certainly directed against Duchamp, against his Large Glass.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Glasses, Mirrors

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?

  Tom Robbins

  God, Prayer, Humorous

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.48, Random House

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• Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Sports, Sex

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• Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.

  Jack Gilbert

  Fun, Interesting, Six Months

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• All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

  Bertrand Russell

  Book, Greatness, Portions

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

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• People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

  Colin Hay

  Home, People, Watches

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• Just so you know, I'm a really boring interview. I hate doing them.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Hate, Interviews, Knows

  "Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. March 1, 1996.

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• In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.

  Mark Batterson

  Add, Spirit, Holy

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• The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

  Samantha Barks

  Creating

  "STAGE TO SCREENS: Meet Samantha Barks, Eponine of the New 'Les Miserables' Film". Interview with Mark Shenton, www.playbill.com. February 11, 2012.

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• An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

  Shane Black

  Cacophony, Too Much, Action

  "Crash, bang, wallop what a picture". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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