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Quotes About Boredom

With all my films, the pace is not very fast, and so people get bored with them and comment that they're just people talking in rooms and all that.
~ Whit Stillman
I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking, 'Something's not right, something's not feelin' right.' I just gotta do what I gotta do in Oklahoma and get back to the fast-paced city.
~ Matt Kemp
My idea of hell is to sit with a pair of curling tongs or have my hair blow-dried: I fidget like a 12-year-old boy.
~ Sue Perkins
I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
~ Kevin Nealon
I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.
~ Rhona Mitra
Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?
~ Jasmine Guinness
My job is to go out partying and entertaining and it's all in an excitable environment. Doing that after night - it gets boring, you know what I mean?
~ Shaun Ryder
Kendimi, kitaplar?n kahramanlar?ndan daha mühim buldu?um için, okumaktan s?k?l?yorum. Ist?rab?m?n hodgaml??? mani oluyor.
~ Peyami Safa
The juror selection was a slow, tedious process. It bored Richard, and he soon began falling asleep. He'd stay up late at night reading and would be tired for court. Judge Tynan didn't like his sleeping and warned him to stay awake. Richard took to wearing large black Porsche-type sunglasses, also bought by Doreen, so he could close his eyes behind them.
~ Philip Carlo
One of the greatest bores on earth is the Anti-Semite, and for him, at least, the show should be a liberal instruction. He will be disappointed to find no examples of those peculiar knives used in the ritual murders of young boys ...'.
~ Philip Hoare
life is first boredom, then fear. whether or not we use it, it goes, and leaves what something hidden from us chose, and age, and then the only end of age.
~ Philip Larkin
Part of the storytelling ability is simply the anticipation of boredom.
~ Phillip Lopate
Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.
~ Italo Calvino
I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby Doo, Boo Boo and others.
~ Justin Timberlake
What's bad, boring, and barely read all over? Business writing.
~ Jason Fried
I don't go to rock bars. Why would I go to rock bars? I can do that every night; it's boring.
~ Brian Fallon
I'm no good at sitting on a beach and doing nothing.
~ Owen Farrell
Yeah,' said Al. 'I'm very prone to boredom. I gotta go do something. Yeah. That's a fair statement. I'm not the most relaxed person in the world. My mind does not stop working all night.' 'Manipulative?' I said. 'I think you could describe that as leadership,' he said. 'Inspire! I think it's called leadership.
~ Jon Ronson
I sat in airport hell wondering once again why there is nothing to do in airports. Why hasn't some enterprising genius yet realized all us bored ticket holders would adore, flock to, pay hard cash for any diversions that lasted longer than a cruise through the magazine racks or dull necktie store?
~ Jonathan Carroll
Two empty hours were a sinus in which infections bred.
~ Jonathan Franzen
with nothing left to relish or discover, he just might die of boredom. Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Happiness is pretty boring, hard to take - in a word, a pain in the neck.
~ Jorge Amado