Boring Quotes - Page 9

• Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.

  Garry Winogrand

  Artist, Discipline, Goes On

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer or an astronomer. In fact, if you'd asked me then about a life of solitary writing I would have said, "Oh how boring! Imagine, to sit at a desk all day and just write."

  Vera Nazarian

  Writing, Kids, Artist

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death.

  Harold J. Seymour

  Boredom, Volunteer, Usual

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• The script just can't commit the sin of being boring.

  Lester Persky

  Scripts, Sin, Commit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date

  Taiichi Ohno

  Looks, Each Day, Lasts

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• I tell everyone a different story. That way nothing's ever boring, even when they turn and say goodbye.

  Jane Siberry

  Goodbye, Way, Different

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• I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

  Ann Patchett

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  "Novelist Ann Patchett on how independent bookstores build community". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. September 13, 2016.

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• It was actually the production group that ended up producing the show for us...Every musician, especially in the hip-hop community, you always make these show recaps or vlogs, and essentially what "Touring's Boring" was is, we tried to make our vlogs interesting and almost more like a TV show. That's how we got discovered by TV.

  Mike Stud

  Tv Shows, Interesting, Hip Hop

  "Interview: Mike Stud turns reality TV star in 'This Is Mike Stud'". Interview with Brittany Frederick, www.axs.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We needed those building blocks in terms of - you know, when I look at a great Barbara Kruger, for example, and you're thinking about, you know, the woman's position in society - you know, she found a way of making it beautiful, but at the same time it's very sort of preachy, you know what I mean?

  Kehinde Wiley

  Beautiful, Art, Block

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Looking Good, So Boring

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons with possible lives lived by new generations). If this happens, there will eventually be no room for new generations. A kind of collective irrationality will lead to a bleak life for the last generation that decides to stay around. Unless we put and end to the human race (through global warming, for example), before this happens, individual egoism will block the path to a better world.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Letting Go, Block, Race

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• This film [Doctor Strange] kind of takes that everyday boring reality and really bursts it wide. So we talked a lot about that. In many ways there's something very practical about this world, the Kamar-Taj. It's - You know, we all look like samurai warriors, but actually there are iPads everywhere and there's a feeling that it's a practical possibility for this modern world that the Doctor Strange universe is functioning, and that we know it and it's around the corner for all of us.

  Tilda Swinton

  Warrior, Reality, Doctors

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.

  Eric Idle

  Hate, Tedious, I Hate

  "Eric Idle: the Pio Interview". Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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• It's boring to be like everybody.

  Eva Green

  "Eva Green Talks Bond, Burton, and Her Decision to Work with Roman Polanski". Interview with Mehera Bonner, www.marieclaire.com. September 29, 2016.

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• Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

  Idries Shah

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.121, Octagon Press Ltd

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• He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fate, Agony, Olympus

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.184, Macmillan

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• For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.

  Timothy Keller

  Keys, Justice For All, Israel

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.34, Penguin

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• That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Function

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, People, Vagueness

  "Souvenirs sur Degas (Memories of Degas)". Book by Georges Jeanniot, 1933.

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• We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Character, People, Ends

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Extinction: A Novel”, p.115, Vintage

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• You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

  Paulo Coelho

  Want, Easy, Want To Be Happy

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• The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story, testament to the brightest passion that ever burned between our races. You can follow the scenes through if you've time enough and are willing to risk getting lost for a few centuries.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, Passion, Race

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Sep 12, 2013

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• However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place?

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Complaining, Dull

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• Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

  John Green

  Dream, People

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.61, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Eye, Thinking

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.142, Random House

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