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Quotes About Bored

Everywhere he goes, Trump is bored by working meetings and rude to those who attend them. He can't make deals or negotiate because he doesn't know enough about the issues.
~ Anne Applebaum
He wore a black hat and a drooping moustache. His face was angular but the eyes, like the eyes of most cowhands, were bored. It occurred to Miss Pink, acknowledging the introductions with grace, that the bored eyes went with the myth, as an expression of contempt went with the gangster myth.
~ Gwen Moffat
Michael, there in front of me. Each expression of helpless submission or bored compliance. This was him. How he passed. And living like that, of course, you would now and then end up with fiancees which had to be shaken off.
~ Gwendoline Riley
Fang? Are you- like Max? asked Dr. Martinez. Nope,he said, sounding bored. I'm the smart one. I resisted the urge to kick him in the shin.
~ James Patterson
I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.
~ Lily Cole
I was approached by Disney to reprise my role but I wasn't interested. The movies are sure to be brilliant but I don't want to be in them. I've spent the past 20 years talking about the last movies and I'm bored with it. I don't want to spend the next 20 talking about 'Star Wars.'
~ Denis Lawson
If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored.
~ Tituss Burgess
this was a bored "lumpen-bourgeoisie," a narcissistic and mostly affluent middle class of deep pockets and shallow minds who paid lip service to democracy but had no interest in it if the results of democratic elections offended them.6
~ Thomas M. Nichols
This was fortunate. He would have made a poor notary: he got bored and distracted too easily, especially when a project became routine rather than creative.14
~ Walter Isaacson
Tallow turned the corner into Bat and Scarly's office to be greeted by a large plastic robot on the bench waving its arms and shouting, Say hello to my l'il frien' in an electronically processed voiced as a small plastic penis repeatedly jabbed out from its groin on a short metal piston. Bat emerged from behind the thing. Don't judge me, he said. I got bored.
~ Warren Ellis
He was a boring bully. Never hit me, but he would talk and talk about science until my sister and I were bored shitless."54
~ Charles J. Shields
The fact is, we adults don't have much room in our lives for fun and games. Our days are filled with stress, obligations, and hard work. We may be stiff, tired, and easily bored when we try to get on the floor and play with children—especially when it means switching gears from a stressful day of work or household chores.
~ Lawrence J. Cohen
For a while, I tried to masquerade as somewhat of a hippie because I was under the impression that was the kind of guy girls would like. I was pretty unsuccessful because I liked the idea of camping more than actually camping. I did go to a Grateful Dead concert, but I was pretty bored.
~ Paul Rudd
I think women, especially, are bored of blokes being useless.
~ James May
At the end of the '90s, I was very bored with the usual models, so I discovered a new generation that impressed me with their fresh look. I still keep working with models like Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss, and I am still looking for new, interesting faces. Life is about discovery, and you should never stop searching.
~ Mario Testino
Miss Strange?" said the receptionist. "The King's Useless Brother has become bored and will see you early.
~ Jasper Fforde
What the hell happened?' Jack asked, grinning. 'Slight accident in the marshland,' Gwen said. 'We wandered off the path at Greendown Moss. Big mistake.' 'That's a relief,' Owen said with a sardonic smile. 'For a moment I thought you'd been mud-wrestling together and I'd missed it.' 'In your dreams.' 'Only when I'm bored, girls. Only when I'm bored.
~ Unknown
How can you be so ugly to me?" "'Cause I'm bored, and when a man gets bored enough he gets like an animal. I'm an animal now, feels like.
~ David Foster Wallace
London, Mick would have a final showdown with Chrissie Shrimpton and effectively tell her he felt 'very bored' and didn't want to see her again. When she took a nearly fatal overdose of sleeping pills and sent Mick the hospital bill, he refused to pay it. Lin Eastman became Linda McCartney.5
~ Unknown
Man and Superman: "the audience gets an exhausting idea of the inexhaustibility of the subject, and is bored brilliantly.
~ Clive James
I put on a martyred expression - like this - as if I was bored to death with every luxury under the sun. I had the time of my life.
~ Colette
I can't believe I was worried magic school was going to be so dangerous," Call said, squinting at the sand pile. "You could die of boredom," said Aaron. Call snickered. Tamara looked up at them miserably. "The thought of that is the only thing that's going to keep me going.
~ Holly Black
As she does, she speculates about all the aspects of the mortal world she's going to have to explain to Dad. "Like cell phones," she says. "Or self-checkout in the grocery store. Oh, this is going to be amazing. Seriously, his exile is the best present you ever got me." "You know that he's going to be so bored that he's going to try to micromanage your life," Taryn says. "Or plan your invasion of a neighboring apartment building
~ Holly Black
I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
~ Taron Egerton