Best 561 quotes in «boring quotes» category

Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.

Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

Sometimes people are boring not because they are boring but because they want to get rid of the person they are talking to.

Sometimes we wonder what it's like to feel normal," Maida said. "You know, like all the people you see out on the streets or sitting in their little boxy homes." ... "But then", Maida went on, "we see how boring they are and we're happy to be the way we are.

The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation; and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.

Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life.

Take your million smiles through billion miles; life will never get boring for you even for a while.

The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.

The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told.

The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were within its reach.

The First book written by me was like a puzzle, like "What to write now, first?", "From Where to Start First?", "What to add more?", "Which will be liked??" A lot of questions, you know that biography books are difficult you need to add the stuff which will make impress, scar or give a lesson to the people, not to repeat the boring life!

There are just two directions in life, the one which is safe but boring, and the other which is delicate but exciting. Now ask yourself, which path will you go?

The only times she did speak was to say how impossible it was for her to express how boring and long it was, how interminable it was, to be Lol Stein. They asked her to try and pull herself together. She didn't understand why she should, she said. The difficulty she experienced in searching for a single word seemed insurmountable. She acted as though she expected nothing further from life.

There are no boring jobs, only boring men.

The only people who are worth knowing are either saints, scoundrels or madmen; at least their conversation is always interesting. Sensible people are dull by definition, because they are always harping on to the same boring tune about everyday life. They form part of the crowd, the more intelligent part perhaps, but the crowd for all that, and I’m sick of them.

There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

There is no such thing a boring content. In the hands of a great teacher...even if as teachers we doubt that we can make it so...this doubt puts us at risk of undercutting it: watering it down or apologizing for teaching it.

Women who are not boring have realized that men do not like sex as much as it is generally believed.

...What kind of a tragedy did you have in your childhood?" "Why, none at all. I had a wonderful childhood. Free and peaceful and not bothered too much by anybody. Well, yes, I did feel bored very often. But I’m used to that.

When they returned to Filigree Street, Mori refused even to go upstairs. Instead he hid under a quilt in the parlour with Thaniel's never-read copy of Anna Karenina. The Russians, he said, knew how to write genuinely boring novels, and he would only stop being afraid when he was bored enough. They were all the more boring because he could remember reading the end in the recent future.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.

Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.

Yet, even the nicest places on earth become boring in due course. The greatest moments become dull and tedious once the flame of excitement ceases to burn.

You and Nick are good together," Jake said. "Probably in more ways than you know." "Let's not go there." "You keep saying that to yourself, but maybe it's time for a rethink." "Since when are you interested in my love life?" "You don't have one. You're all about the job. With Bob, you can have both." "You don't know anything about Bob." "I know it's got to be Nick, because there isn't anybody else," Jake said. "Who could possibly compete?" "Someone who isn't a criminal on the FBI's Most Wanted list for starters." "How boring would that guy be? He couldn't match the excitement Nick brings to your life.

Your pony, he said as he stomped toward me. "I'm the farrier who is here to fix your pony." "I thought you were a Hells Angel," I said. "I used to be," he replied. "But fighting all the time and being really drunk and nasty got boring. So now I just take care of animals.

You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person).

You don’t have to comment on every boring thing you do.” I said. “This isn’t Olympic curling. You’re just unpacking a suitcase.

You had me believing that I was crazy. Every time I broke down over what seemed like nothing, it was you.’ Bade ran an anxious hand through his hair. ‘Well, that’s love isn’t it?’ Davina took his restless hand. ‘Love is crazy and irrational, and anything less would be boring.

You know you’re not perfect and that’s good. Perfect is boring. You have a lot to offer. A lot more to experience and so many things to learn. There are more pages to fill up so act your age.

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

A finished person is a boring person.

A job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

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

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

Allowing the computer to do one thing is only boring if you don't use the time that the computer saves you to do something else.

American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

Antiquite  . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe"  tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche  d and boring.

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.