Boring Quotes - Page 37

• People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Lonely, Thinking

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• What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Hate, Stupid, Differences

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• No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.

  G. H. Hardy

  Bored, Should, Disgusted

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• I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

  Cokie Roberts

  Children, Boys, Als

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• Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Taken, Cameras, Sometimes

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• Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Drinking, Self, Soul

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• It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

  Marion Bartoli

  Winning, Player

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• I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.

  Chris Mars

  Artist, Would Be, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Crazy, Leather Jackets, Safety Pins

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• My fear is if I expose myself, not so much that I'll be hurt, but that the reaction will be "Is that all there is? Is that the entirety of you? Because it's boring."

  Michael Ian Black

  Hurt, Reactions, Ifs

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they don't mind that they're obvious, their point is made.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Mind, Stuff

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The only boring part of it is finding the fact that got you from point A to point B. Most actors, if they're being honest, are not going to say that that's the most stimulating acting work they've ever done. But the dynamics of staring into the face of evil and it looking back at you, and seeing yourself in that or not, is interesting.

  Benjamin McKenzie

  Evil, Interesting, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.

  William H. Macy

  Character, People, Excellence

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I read, watch television, watch movies, hang out with family. I like my clothes and I have great cars, and I drive those. But for most people, it's like, "That's boring. You don't club? You don't party?"

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Party, Clothes, Car

  "Samuel L. Jackson Is A Big Nerd, And Other Revelations From The Man'". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. September 8, 2005.

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• I'm a pretty boring person. I have a dog that I love, and friends that I love, and a family that I love. I'm just trying to spend as much time with them as I can.

  Anne Hathaway

  Dog, Trying, Persons

  "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. June 21, 2006.

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• It's pretty boring, working by yourself. The scene happens in between the two of you, and then you don't know what it's going to be because it's a kind of combustion. So, you do take something from every actor you work with.

  Julianne Moore

  Two, Actors, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.

  Deepa Mehta

  Sorry, Men, White Man

  Source: collider.com

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• I was like, "Who the hell is Bob Dylan?" I was going to learn one song to appease my mom and alphabetically the first song in the book was "Absolutely Sweet Marie." When I heard it, it was like "Oh, there is something going on here. It's not like my parents' boring music that I don't care about. This is totally electrifying."

  Ezra Furman

  Mom, Song, Sweet

  "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Your insecurities are what makes you different and who you are. If we all were the same, it'd be boring.

  Jesy Nelson

  Insecurity, Different, Ifs

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• I don't drink, fight & womanise. I am not a wife beater. I don't do nude covers. I don't have a 12-inch long you know what ... I am quite boring.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Fighting, Long, Wife

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• With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Men, Long

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• Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

  Mason Cooley

  Vices, Cruelty, Alas

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• Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

  Bjork

  Ideas, Energy, Want

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• I'm not going on a diet, I'm not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it'd be boring.

  Jesy Nelson

  Girl, Nice, School

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

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• To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Laughing, Car, Links

  Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub

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