Bores Quotations

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

If we didn't get him, I'm glad UA got him because Lute does a great job. When you get to know someone like Marcus, you pull for him. He's in good hands.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

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

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.

Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being "cool." Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when you're cool. Hobbes: Look, I brought a sombrero! Now we can both be "cool." Calvin: A sombrero?! Are you crazy?! Cool people don't wear sombreros! Hobbes: What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.

Things are so deep and people are always trying to read shit into things that real simple. Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

What are answering machines for if not to break up woth someone who bores you?

The only thing that's off limits is stuff that bores us.

I love movies, of course. 'Terminator 3' and 'Bad Boys II' - lots of action. Sports movies, action movies, comedies - I'll go to those, but not 'las de amor.' Not romance. It's not that I don't like love, but on the screen it bores me.

Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored

I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.

Oh dear," said Jace..."I hope that wasn't anything important." "It was a sleeping potion," she said angrily, toeing the vial with the tip of a sneaker. "And now it's gone." "If only Simon were here. He could bore you to sleep.

If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

War? War is an organized bore.

The truth is I don't watch TV at all. It bores me.

I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the highest flights of art

I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other writers who know a lot more than me about it. I know enough about it to do a little bit of background on laboratory techniques and stuff. But it kind of bores me.

I don't lecture any more; it bores people rigid. I read and I talk. After you teach college for a while, that becomes fairly easy to do. A formal lecture makes people sit up straight and feel like they need to take notes for an exam later, and I don't want them to feel that way.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

I try not to bore my readers.

More is more and less is a bore.

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

I dont like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.