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Quotes About Boring

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
~ Mario Monti
I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing . . . I don't want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports
~ Michael Crichton
Lots of opera singers are just boring.
~ Anna Netrebko
If I had to write long-form stuff with descriptions of rooms, it would be so boring for me. I like writing dialogue and jokes and situational stuff.
~ Justin Theroux
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
~ Michel Hazanavicius
The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
~ Lemmy
We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.
~ John Eldredge
This is why people will never hear stories about Winston," Harvan complained. "He just held a master shapecrafter in suspension on her home turf, and he made it sound boring.
~ Brandon Mull
You may have noticed that I began my story with a quick, snappy scene of danger and tension – but then quickly moved on to a more boring discussion of my childhood. Well, that's because I wanted to prove something to you: that I am not a nice person. Would a nice person begin with such an exciting scene, then make you wait almost the entire book to read about it?
~ Brandon Sanderson
I can be incredibly boring.' 'That's not a weapon.' 'It might not be one in war, Tress,' he said, 'But in courtship? It is as fine a weapon as the sharpest rapier. You know how I go on. And on. And on.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.
~ Henry Adams
You have to take control of the crowd because there have been times when they have scared people. The 'Bayley: This Is Your Life' segment - the girl who was Bayley's best friend, the crowd was yelling at her. They were like, 'Boring, what?'
~ Alexa Bliss
Yoga is the most boring exercise. It's for people who are too lazy to get on the elliptical. Bikram, where they heat up the room to mimic India's climate, is especially stupid. People in India are not skinny because they're doing yoga in 105-degree rooms; they're skinny because there's no food.
~ Noureen DeWulf
All my male friends are into fitness and though I go gymming and swimming, I find yoga and spinning at the gym very boring.
~ Koena Mitra
Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'
~ Markus Persson
I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it's definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I'm sorted I've got good people around me.
~ Olly Murs
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
~ James Dyson
My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines.
~ Liu Wen
Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.
~ Charlie Munger
All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.
~ Carol Moseley Braun
Meat, to me, it's slightly boring. Hold on, I love meat too, but only once in a while. You get a piece of meat, and you put it in your mouth, you chew, the first five seconds, all the juices flow around your mouth, they're gone, and then you are 20 more seconds chewing something that is tasteless at this point.
~ Jose Andres
Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
~ Steven Moffat
I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.
~ Craig Sager