Boring Quotes - Page 38

• Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife.

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Wife, Months, Six

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• It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, People, Saint

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• Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

  Stephen Marche

  Fun, Smart, Stupid

  "How Genre Fiction Became More Important Than Literary Fiction" by Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. March 11, 2015.

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• ...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Topics, Philosopher, Seems

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• People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.

  Nido R Qubein

  Jobs, People, Principles

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Travel, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.217, Xist Publishing

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• It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldn't the care of babies and children be thought of that way too?

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Mother, Baby, Jobs

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• I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

  Teddy Sears

  Home, Wife, Wake Up

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

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• Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.

  Roger Ebert

  Law, Accurate

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• What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Libertarian, Constructs

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• My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.

  Roz Chast

  Eye, Brain, Life Is

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• I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Stars, Party, Hollywood

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• Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

  Yuja Wang

  Music, Dark, Blood

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• ...let's talk about soccer scores. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency and scoreless sports ties are boring.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Soccer, Sports, Ties

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• You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Law, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

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• So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

  George S. Patton

  Real, Fighting, Biting

  "Absolute War". Poem by George S. Patton, Stanza 5. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 492, 1996.

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• It gets boring at home.  How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV?

  Bud Abbott

  Home, Guy, Watches

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• I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Law, Doctors

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• People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.

  Isaac Hecker

  Music, Crazy, Thinking

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• I miss going to school and having friends; that's normal for anyone my age. I had a very boring childhood because I never had the opportunity to associate with anybody my own age due to my career. I miss being around kids my own age.

  Selena

  School, Kids, Opportunity

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

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• Life is way too short for boring cars.

  Chris Gerdes

  Car, Way, Life Is

  "The future race car — 150mph, and no driver". TED Talk, www.ted.com. May 2012.

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• Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".

  Joseph Pilates

  Exercise, Dull, Pilates

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• Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home.

  Joseph Pilates

  Home, Exercise, Doe

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• I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just listen to the voices.

  Peter Stormare

  Voice, People, Opera

  Source: collider.com

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• That the north star is the brightest in the night sky. I'd guess about 9 out of 10 people think this. But it does not require a grant from the National Science Foundation to learn the answer. The North Star is not even in the top 40 in the night sky. It's the 49th brightest star. Rather dull and boring by most measures.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Night, Thinking

  "I am Neil deGrasse Tyson - AMA". Reddit.com, November 13, 2011.

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