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Quotes About Boredom

There was literally nothing to do in high school other than prank each other.
~ James Murray
It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
We're so bored of plastic, prime-time predictability.
~ Kemp Muhl
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
~ Annette Funicello
I'm the most boring pregnant woman ever.
~ Kristin Cavallari
How drab people are, especially from the press.
~ Richard Burton
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
~ William Weld
You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.
~ Lorrie Moore
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
~ Jacki Weaver
My day-to-day existence is, honestly, a little boring.
~ Samuel Ervin Beam
I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.
~ Joe Calzaghe
When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
~ William S. Burroughs
I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
~ Kate Winslet
I think the price of the food can totally alter the perception of it. If I know something is expensive and the ambience is fancy, the food just invariably tastes a little better - and I feel like I'm getting away with something. But I'm also bored by most 'fancy' food.
~ Lisa Hanawalt
I had piercings all over my face, which did look dreadful, but I got them done while waiting for my husband Michael to get a tattoo. I was bored.
~ Pete Burns
The tattoos, they were just something to do.
~ Robert Parish
I don't feel that old, but when I talk to these kids, I do feel old. Because I'm talking about taxes and all this other stuff that is very, very boring. And these guys are talking about music, and I'm like, 'Oh, I remember those days.'
~ Jason Day
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
~ Don Marquis
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
At school, I was bored with the teachers, and there were moments where I felt they were singling me out.
~ Bill Bailey
I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.
~ Joshua Lederberg
Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.
~ Elliott Abrams
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
~ Bill Gates