Bored Quotes:

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

topic: Islamic, Appreciate, Bored, Appreciate Life, Shortness

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

- Adam Levine

topic: Bored, Misunderstood, Quiet

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

- Adam McKay

topic: White, Bored, Dollars, White Collar, White Collar Crime

I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.

- Adriana Lima

topic: Bored, Work Out, Aggression, Shake It Up

If I am not moving I get bored very easily.

- Adriana Lima

topic: Moving, Bored

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Long, Bored, Enough, Assured

Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu

- Ai Yazawa

topic: Wind, Snow, Bored

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

- Aidan Chambers

topic: Bored, Doing Nothing, Boring, Being Bored

How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

- Al Yankovic

topic: Cheer, Laughing, Bored

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

- Alan Hirsch

topic: Christian, Bored, Church

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Talking, Bored, Actors

I never get bored of my wife. It's lovely.

- Alan Titchmarsh

topic: Bored, Wife, Lovely

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?

- Alan Watts

topic: Eye, Jewels, Bored

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Determination, Bored, Majority

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning,

- Alexa Chung

source: "Alexa Chung: 'I don't know whether to be open and vulnerable'" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

topic: Bored, Being Bored

I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

- Alexa Chung

source: "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

topic: Bored

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Bored, Desire, Hungry, Monte Cristo

If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.

- Alfred Armand Montapert

topic: Goal, Bored, Unhappy

I can be bought, but not bored.

- Alfred Lunt

topic: Bored

I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

- Alfred Molina

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Bored, Being Bored

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

- Ali Smith

source: Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.252, Penguin UK

topic: Bored, Want

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

- Ama Ata Aidoo

source: Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.96, The Feminist Press at CUNY

topic: People, Bored, Worms, Antics

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.

- Amanda Bynes

topic: Ideas, Bored, Forever

I am most scared of being bored

- Amanda Seyfried

topic: Bored, Scared

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it

- Amber Tamblyn

topic: Past, Bored, Democracy

Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Children, Women, Bored, Needy

Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, People, Bored

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Book, Bored

I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.

- Ana Gasteyer

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Years, Bored, Done

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

- Andre Breton

topic: Stupid, Bored, Age

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

- Andrei Tarkovsky

topic: People, Bored, Danger

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.

- Andrei Tarkovsky

topic: Bored, Quality, Special, Pique, Friction

When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.

- Andrew Dice Clay

topic: Moving, Doors, Bored, Dress Code

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

- Andy Warhol

topic: Art, Bored, Use, Commercial Art

When I get bored, I get into trouble.

- Angie Harmon

topic: Bored, Trouble

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Bored, Feelings, Unanswered Questions, Feeling Angry

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

- Anita Loos

topic: Order, Bored, Bores, Humanitarianism

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

- Anjelica Huston

topic: Running, Ambition, Bored

I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show...

- Anna Gavalda

topic: Thinking, Talking, Bored, Inner Demons

In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.

- Anthony Jeselnik

topic: Class, Bored, Down And

There is nothing more boring than a bored person.

- Arlene Francis

topic: Bored, Boring, Bores

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Men, Doors, Bored

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

- Art Bell

source: "Art Bell: Radio's Master Of The Unexplained Explains Himself". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. April 20, 2009.

topic: Talking, Bored, Week

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

- Arthur Helps

topic: Boredom, Bored, Dying, Dying Of Boredom, Dying Slowly

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Bored, Machines, Next

When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

- Ben Falcone

topic: Kids, Bored, House

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Wine, Bored, So Bored, Wine And Age, Good Wine

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

- Bernadette Devlin

topic: Horse, Bored, Silence, Subject Matter

In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.

- Beryl Markham

topic: Knights, Bored, Sage

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

- Beth Ditto

topic: Mean, People, Bored

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

- Bette Davis

topic: Bored, Tears, Pals

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

- Bill Blass

topic: Fashion, Eye, Bored

It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.

- Bill Joy

topic: Tired, Bored

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

- Bill Mumy

topic: Bored, Different, Lucky

Conclusion 2: There's nothing more demonic than two bored twins. ~Signed Tamaki

- Bisco Hatori

topic: Two, Bored, Twins, Demonic

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

source: Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books

topic: Errors, Bored, Solutions

I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?

- Bo Burnham

topic: Bored, Needs, Half

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

- Bob Dylan

topic: Bored, Trying, Want

Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.

- Bob Saget

topic: Talking, People, Bored, Funny Guy

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

- Boris Vallejo

topic: Clothes, Knowing, Bored, Knowing Something

I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.

- Brad Garrett

source: "Brad Garrett Gives Us the Goods on 'Til Death". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 16, 2008.

topic: Thinking, Bored, Schedules

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

- Brian P. Cleary

topic: Kids, Laughing, Bored, Funny Story

I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

- Cam Gigandet

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Long, Bored, Goes On

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

- Cameron Diaz

topic: Bored, Kind

Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.

- Carl Cohen

topic: Government, People, Bored, Hostile, Aggravated

Guys can get bored easily.

- Carmen Electra

topic: Bored, Guy

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.

- Carol Vorderman

topic: Two, Bored, Earth, So Bored, Boring Things

Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?

- Caroline Dhavernas

topic: Bored, Just Being, Littles, Uninterested

Get bored with your past, it's over!

- Caroline Myss

topic: Past, Bored, Your Past

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

- Carolyn Murphy

topic: Bored, Lasts, Remember, Corleone

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

- Carolyn Murphy

topic: Bored, Boring, Feels, So Boring

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Bored, Stressed, Irritated

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Doctors, Bored, Waiting

In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.

- Catherine Jinks

topic: School, Bored, Primary School

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

- Chad Everett

topic: Giving, Bored, Feelings, Different Feelings

Only the boring get bored

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Bored, Boring

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Bored, Bored To Death, Bleak House

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.

- Charlie Parker

source: "Hear Me Talkin' to Ya". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 354, 1955.

topic: Play, Bored, Alive

I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.

- Chester Brown

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Past, Bored, Stuff

I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit. I chose the messed up characters because I find that that's acting. I want to explore emotions that you otherwise wouldn't be able to explore.

- Chloe Grace Moretz

topic: Character, Bored, Acting

When I get a fringe, it's because I'm bored or need a change; I always regret it!

- Chloe Sevigny

topic: Regret, Bored, Needs

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

- Chris Lilley

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Dark, Bored, Tears, Probing

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Life, Optimistic, Bored, Invisible Monsters

If you are bored with Berkeley, you are bored with life.

- Clark Kerr

source: "The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs".

topic: Bored, Berkeley

People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted

- Claude C. Hopkins

topic: Bored, People, Personality

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

- Cliff Burton

topic: Bored, Burn Out

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.

- Clive Barker

topic: Kids, Bored, Imagination

I retired when I was 30 and I was bored shitless.

- Clive Palmer

topic: Bored, Retired

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

- Compay Segundo

topic: Bored, Desire, Limits

The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking.

- Craig Clevenger

topic: Knowing, Talking, Bored, Keep Talking, Syndromes

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

- Criss Jami

topic: Lonely, Bored, Solitude

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

- Criss Jami

topic: Yawning, People, Bored

What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

- Curtis Sittenfeld

topic: Bored, Together, Privilege, Being Bored

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

- Dale Dauten

topic: Moving, Bored, Mind

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

- Danny Boyle

topic: Holiday, Cities, Bored

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

- Darrell Royal

topic: Sports, Bored, Guy

I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd chalk it up to that narcissistic personality disorder laces with a smidgen of schizophrenia. Your mother would be proud.

- Darynda Jones

topic: Mother, Bored, Childhood, Chalk, Personality Disorders

I see the booing as a nice bit of banter and at least it means the fans aren't bored. It's quality. I enjoy it to be honest and I'm getting it even more than Robbie Savage, which is really saying something.

- David Bentley

topic: Nice, Mean, Bored, Booing, Banter

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

- David Suchet

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Bored, Watches, Days Off

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Boredom, Bored, Ability, Stale

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

- Dee Wallace

topic: Light, Careers, Bored

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

- Dennis Crowley

topic: Bored, Sketching, Dodgeball

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

- Derek Sivers

topic: Ideas, Bored, Trying, New Company

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

- Diana Vreeland

source: Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

topic: Bored, Would Be, Becoming

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.

- Diane Kruger

topic: Thinking, Giving, Bored

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

- Dimebag Darrell

topic: Thinking, Bored, Musician

...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

topic: Two, Bored, Armor

The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Knowing, Bored, Answers, Omniscience

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

- Dustin Hoffman

topic: Bored, Frightened, Anxious, Cinematography

As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored" "I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Play, Bored, Special, So Bored

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

- Earl King

topic: Bored, Albums, Serious, Jovial

Nothing that comes and goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Knowing, Bored, Comes And Goes

I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

- Edgar Degas

source: "Degas: An Intimate Portrait (Technical Details)". Book by Ambroise Vollard (1927) translated by Randolph T. Weaver (p. 70), 1986.

topic: Bored, Style, Found, Bored To Death

I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

- Edie Sedgwick

topic: Bored, Would Be, Routine

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

- El-P

source: "A conversation with lead singer of The Almost and former Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Bored, Want, Delusions Of Grandeur

I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar,

- Elena Tonra

source: "Daughter (No 1,116)" by Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2011.

topic: Guitar, Bored

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

- Eli Broad

topic: Bored, Bankers, Lawyer, Bored To Death

The only boring people I know are bored people.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: People, Bored, Boring

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

- Elizabeth I

topic: Bored, Faults, Life Is

if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

- Elizabeth von Arnim

source: Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.119, Jester House Publishing

topic: Bored, Next, Impossible

For 15 years, I've been playing the same character-which is myself-and I'm bored with 'myself'.

- Elle Macpherson

topic: Character, Years, Bored

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

- Elton John

topic: Bored, Records, Boring

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

- Emily Carr

topic: Bored, Twenties, Eternal Love

Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.

- Emily Kinney

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Nice, Writing, Bored, Write Your Own

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

- Emily Oster

topic: Bored, Humans

We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.

- Emma Anderson

topic: Thinking, Bored, Done

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: People, Boredom, Bored, Funny Boredom

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

- Ernest Dimnet

topic: Hate, Giving, Bored

I never get bored of a workout, because I feel great after a session.

- Esha Gupta

topic: Workout, Bored, Feels

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that.

- Eva Amurri

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Bored, Actors, Want

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962

topic: Work, Blessing, Bored, Punctual, Promptness

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

- F. Sionil José

topic: Bored, Listening, Want

It was like watching a movie being played on the blank screen of his mind; the only difference was that he did not get bored, no matter how many times he watched it.

- Faraaz Kazi

source: Faraaz Kazi (2012). “Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!”, p.72, Faraaz Kazi

topic: Love, Differences, Bored, Being Played

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

- Felix Dennis

topic: Bored, Dying

I cannot abide being bored.

- Felix Dennis

topic: Bored, Being Bored

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

- Félix J. Palma

source: Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of Time: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mother, Bored, Gone

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

- Fiona Shaw

topic: Bored, Theater

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

- Francine Pascal

topic: Art, Bored, Want, Art Films

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Bored, Bores

I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.

- Francoise Hardy

topic: Bored, Enough Time, Enough

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Dream, Bored, Steps, Apocalyptic

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

- Gail Porter

source: Interview with Phil Hogan, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

topic: Girl, Book, Bored, So Bored

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

- Gary Coleman

source: "'Diff'rent Strokes' actor Gary Coleman dies at 42" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2010.

topic: Years, Bored, Three

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

- Gelett Burgess

topic: Bored, Action, Irritated, Being Bored, Indignant

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

- George Eliot

topic: Thinking, Bored, Bores

In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for the less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

- George Muller

source: "A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller". Book by George Müller, First Part, 1837.

topic: Prayer, Order, Bored

Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.

- George Sanders

topic: Bored, Leaving, World

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

- George Saunders

topic: Goodbye, Crazy, Bored

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

- Gertrude Stein

source: Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.94, Random House

topic: Bored, Literature, Scared

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

- Giacomo Leopardi

topic: Bored, Feelings, Satisfied, Best Company

I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.

- Glenn Close

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Talking, Bored

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

- Graham Norton

topic: Bored, Want, Obvious

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

- Graham Norton

topic: Bored, Ordinary, Meetings

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.

- Greg Behrendt

topic: Dating, Bored, Misery

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

- Greta Garbo

source: "Fictional character: Marguerite Gautier". "Camille", 1936.

topic: Boredom, Bored, Being Bored

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.

- Guillermo del Toro

topic: Bored

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

- Guy de Maupassant

topic: Art, Bored, Touching

I am only about half alive a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

- H. P. Lovecraft

topic: Philosophy, Suicidal, Bored

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

- Harvey Weinstein

topic: Reading, Kids, Bored, Bored To Death

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.

- Henry James

topic: Bored, Feminism, Shut Up

We've got a portfolio of companies that range all the way from hotels to television stations and cable TV companies, oil and gas, consumer products, and industrial products. If there's anything that I want to know more about, I have the opportunity. It's right in our portfolio. I can spend time at the factory or with the manangement and learn as much as I want. You can't get bored doing that.

- Henry Kravis

source: "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.

topic: Opportunity, Oil, Bored, Cable Tv

Do you wanna play? Everyone's dead, so I got bored. Did you come to play with me? --Wrath

- Hiromu Arakawa

topic: Wrath, Play, Bored, Fma

Aside from performing in 'Peepshow,' I do yoga once a week and I like Pilates. I'm more into toning exercises over aerobics. I like working with a trainer at a private gym, but I also like going with friends because you don't get bored or distracted.

- Holly Madison

topic: Yoga, Exercise, Bored, Aerobics

I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

- Howard Stern

topic: Bored, Boring, Profanity, Being Funny

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

- Hugh Howey

source: "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, And Success". Interview with Eric Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

topic: Book, Bored, Twelve, Completion

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

- Hugh Prather

topic: Thinking, Bored, Want

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.

- Ian Fleming

topic: Bored, Firsts, Waking

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

topic: Thinking, Bored, People, Banality

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

- Iggy Pop

topic: Work, Bored, Boards, Chairman

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

- Ina May Gaskin

topic: Bored, Complaining, Boring, Boring Life

The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

- Inio Asano

topic: Lying, Bored, World

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

- Itzhak Perlman

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Play, Bored, Challenges, Different Looks

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.

- Ivan Chtcheglov

source: Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.3, Bread and Circuses Publishing

topic: Cities, Bored, Sun, Morphology

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.

- Ivan Chtcheglov

topic: Years, Cities, Bored

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

- Ivan Turgenev

topic: Children, Bored, Parent

What would it take for you to forget all your troubles? Are you willing to simply forget all your troubles today? When you remove your attention from a problem, it gets bored and moves away!

- Iyanla Vanzant

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Moving, Bored, Attention

I think fans get bored of the pre-roll. I also think they don't care about the pre-roll, they just want the album.

- Jack Antonoff

source: Source: www.complex.com

topic: Thinking, Bored, Fans

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

- Jack LaLanne

topic: Sports, Ghouls, Bored

Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.

- Jack Welch

topic: Organization, People, Bored

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

- Jackson Pollock

source: Jackson Pollock (2011). “American Letters: 1927-1947”, p.16, Polity

topic: People, Bored, Shells

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

- James Agee

topic: Children, Years, Bored, Bewildered

I'm sitting here bored, ... trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.

- James Richardson

topic: Bored, Trying, Sitting

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.

- Jane Heller

topic: Bored, Being Bored

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

- Janet Jackson

topic: Hair, Careers, Bored

People have it so good in America that they get bored very easily. And when people get bored they start protesting things.

- Janet Reno

topic: America, People, Bored

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

- Jason Statham

topic: People, Bored, Theater

If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.

- Jean Pigozzi

source: "The Art World's Most Fabulous Women" by Miranda Purves, www.elle.com. November 30, 2011.

topic: Party, Bored

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

- Jean-Michel Basquiat

topic: Bored, Painting, Week

I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

source: "‘Magic City’: Jeffrey Dean Morgan On His Return To TV And The Allure Of New Starz Series" by Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

topic: Character, Bored, Stories

...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

- Jeremy Clarkson

topic: Ideas, Bored, Kind, Herpes, Loose Ends

I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of cold sausages on the previous 4,000 excursions. Then, for no obvious reason, I decided to buy a footstool.

- Jeremy Clarkson

topic: Bored, Kitchen, Sausage

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.

- Jerry Bridges

source: Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, p.106, Tyndale House

topic: Bored, Important, Dull

I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.

- Jessica Valenti

topic: Bored, Scandal, Tvs, Battlestar Galactica

Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.

- Jessica Zafra

source: Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

topic: Bored, Angry

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

- Jewel

topic: Book, Reading, Bored

Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

topic: Father, Grandparent, Bored, Being Bored, Gogol

it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

- Jilly Cooper

source: Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

topic: Years, Ideas, Bored, Booksellers

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

- Joaquin Phoenix

topic: Bored, Comedy, Satisfied, Bored To Death

We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

- Joe Meno

source: Joe Meno (2008). “Demons in the Spring”, p.130, Akashic Books

topic: Fun, Bored, Tears

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

- Joe Perry

topic: Bored, Trying, Albums, Stagnation