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Being Bored Quotes

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring. Lily Tomlin
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? Bill Watterson
There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place. Tim Cahill
You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers! Edith Wharton
As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent... Jon Ronson
I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible. Alfred Molina
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be. Christian Bale
Zelda Fitzgerald quote: "She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring."..."
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring." -Zelda Fitzgerald Zelda Fitzgerald
Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape," Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, "on the bare chance that he might ultimately do her the honor of boring her for life? Edith Wharton
We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring. Jon Ronson
Jules Renard quote: "I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self."
I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self. Jules Renard
I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist. Isabel Allende
Aldous Huxley quote: " the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself..."
... the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others. Aldous Huxley
Zelda Fitzgerald quote: "She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring."
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. Zelda Fitzgerald
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We..."
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. Chuck Palahniuk

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