Sunday, April 22, 2012 – On Being Boring
A finished person is a boring person. ~ Anna Quindlen
A lot of people stop short. They don’t actually die but they say, “Right I’m old, and I’m going to retire,” and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring. ~ Mary Wesley
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood. ~ Franz Kafka
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? ~ Chuck Palahniuk
American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring. ~ Sid Vicious
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative. ~ Johnny Rotten
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ~ Frank Zappa
The Beatles saved the world from boredom. ~ George Harrison
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that? ~ Mick Jagger
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. ~ Hilaire Belloc
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you’ve already finished it. ~ Franklin P. Jones
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. ~ Dave Barry
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. ~ Dave Barry
Did anyone ever have a boring dream? ~ Ralph Hodgson
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ~ Heinrich Heine
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. ~ Gioachino Rossini
If you think you’re boring your audience, go slower not faster. ~ Gustav Mahler
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. ~ Voltaire
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. ~ John Cage
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I like boring things. ~ Andy Warhol
I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly. ~ Sean Connery
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. ~ J. G. Ballard
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ~ Charles Baudelaire
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we’ve seen too many of her books on screen. ~ Mark Haddon
Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring. ~ Michelle Pfeiffer
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. ~ Alice Walker
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. ~ John Berryman
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life. ~ Michel Legrand
No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~ Robert Adams
There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness. ~ Aldous Huxley
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. ~ E. M. Forster
What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy? ~ George H. W. Bush
Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn’t make it true. ~ Franz Kafka
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. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. ~ Lin Yutang
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace. ~ Milan Kundera
Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty — his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ~ Aldous Huxley
Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me. ~ Dylan Thomas
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