Best 561 quotes in «boring quotes» category

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

The way to become boring is to say everything.

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.

They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London. But even the sh-tty diner and bars here are kind of exciting for me. Downtown is funky, West Village is beautiful with the cobbled streets, but I love going uptown because you then you go, "F-ck, I'm in New York!" You see all the skyscrapers.

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.

Too much good taste can be boring

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

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring.

TV has gotten so boring that the only thing I watch is the news.

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

Un momento con una donna capricciosa vale undici anni di vita noiosa. A single moment with a fiery female is worth eleven years of a boring life.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

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

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be.

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.

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

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

What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a worm? Making the hole bigger to stay in?

When brands talk about themselves in real time, it’s just boring faster.

When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.

What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.

When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.

When I hear music which is really exciting, I get really excited, and when I hear music which is really boring, I get really upset. I get angry.

...when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know if I can do any of it half the time. It's so much about failure, it's so much about making pictures that are so utterly boring and overstated, you're endlessly disappointed. And in that process you hopefully find something that draws you back and calls to you.

Without the edge, [life's] boring...If you're doing something that's definitely achievable with 100% odds of success, where's the draw in that?

When I started dating I had relationships with people who came from families that weren't at all artistic or whatever, and they didn't understand how to communicate. I find that so boring.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. Ive said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

Wrestling became very stale and boring for me, and I wasn't really making any money with it. So I decided to get into fighting.

You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.

You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.

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

You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.