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  • I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

  • I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

    Men   Bores You   Boredom  
    Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”
  • Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand, engages you, enthralls and satisfies you, it contributes to the meaning of your life

  • We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.

  • Oh, you’re going to die all right. All of you. And for what you’ve done to my brother you will suffer unimaginably! (Kessar) Yada, yada, yada. Am I the only one who gets sick of the bad-guy monologue? ‘Ooo, I’m the big evil. I’m going to kill you all. Just wait while I bore you to tears with my egomaniacal bullshit. I’m just a demon windbag who likes to hear himself speak and I’m trying to intimidate you.' (Kat)

  • A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

    Men   Bores You   Boredom  
    The So-Called Human Race (1922) p. 163
  • Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

    William Ralph Inge (1939). “Our present discontents”
  • I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

  • In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

    Bores You   Heaven   Hell  
  • I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

    Music   Clever   Fun  
    "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 120), 2000.
  • I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.

    Mother   Hate   Agony  
    Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1093, Delphi Classics
  • I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."

    Source: www.alex-haley.com
  • Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

    Book   Doors   Bores You  
    "The Golden Notebook". Book by Doris Lessing (1962), Introduction, 1971 edition.
  • Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

    Mother   Baby   Bores You  
  • The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.

    Dust   Hands   Bores You  
    Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.2, Da Capo Press
  • I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

  • You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

    "Where do you get your ideas?" by Neil Gaiman, www.neilgaiman.com. 1997.
  • Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

    Book   Fire   Race  
    Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.250, Random House
  • The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

    Book   Reading   Doors  
    Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.18, HarperCollins UK
  • Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

    Art   Past   Bores You  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.157, New Directions Publishing
  • Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.

  • Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

    Roots   Bores You   Evil  
    "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 286), 2013.
  • There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

    "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing, (Introduction), 1971.
  • If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

    Writing   Bores You   Ems  
    Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, Harper Collins
  • The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

    The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.
  • If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  • If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

    "Lulu in Hollywood". Book by Louise Brooks, 1982.
  • I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something.

    Girl   Moving   Thinking  
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