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How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god?  And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment - from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies - how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the current. . ." It may not be the recipe for a life of contentment, but that imperfectability is what makes writing such an engaging endeavor, something you can do for the rest of your life and not get bored.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

"I am bored" generally means "I am boring.

I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

I am most scared of being bored

I, as a person, make anything a narrative experience because I experience things linearly. The biggest question for me, is will I go through a transformation? Will I be bored or not? Is it a good or bad narrative experience?

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and the gym can be super monotonous, so I just get outside and try to make it fun so my body doesn't get bored.

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.

I can't remember the last time I was bored.

I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

I confess to getting quickly bored by one style of expression, and I like to experiment with all different sorts of modes. I rebel against familiar tools.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.

I don't draw every day. I tend to draw intensely during certain periods of time. I draw to amuse myself on occasion, when I am bored and drawing is the only fun to be had.

I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.

I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored out of my wits. I find myself being addressed by preachers who, I assume, were led by some initial passion for Christ, for the truth, for God, for "the More." That's what got them there. But that has gotten buried under all the debris of having to run a church, of concerns.

I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory of settings, events and people. I weave history into my stories, but my narratives are made up.

I don't know how long i could be a vet before i got bored and started shagging stuff.

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

I don't necessarily look for what I respond to in a script. I look for things that scare me, and take that as an indication that I should probably do it. I don't want to be bored. I look for challenges. I look for a variety of different things because it's so easy to go the cliche route.

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

I feel like that when I read certain feminist blogs or feminist magazines, where it's not even so much we've gone backwards, it's that I'm bored. Or it's like, oh wow, kids today are still dealing with the same exact issues.

If God is playing hide and seek with us, I must confess that I am quite bored with this childish game!

If I ever get bored with golf, I'm going to start over and play lefthanded.