Top 100 Bore Quotes

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

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

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

My mother was a children’s librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as ‘authentic Indian stories’ when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore – on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

In Ronald Reagan’s case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

Fess up, ‘Hunger Games’ fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He’s the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore.

Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients’ welfare.

I’m not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper.

If you come into any creative project without questions, you’re gonna bore yourself, and it’ll show on the page.

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

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

Not one of the 9/11 terrorists entered through Mexico – and yet Mexicans bore the brunt of this country’s immigration response to the terror attacks.

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I’m looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping – that’s all there is.

Plato was a bore.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there’s none of that hopefully.

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

If you’re bored, it’s because someone else is fulfilling his dream. Become a bore. It’s the most interesting thing you’ll ever do.

Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers.

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn’t do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.

The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it’s interesting to me, but I don’t think it’s a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?

Limit Hold’em is the game for you if you bore easily and crave fast action. Conversely, in No Limit, the game will often slow to a halt when someone is faced with a big decision. That’s uncommon in Limit games because all-in bets are rare.

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 wasn’t thrilled about ‘The Sound Of Music’ – not the movie itself but my role in it. Captain Von Trapp was a bore, and they tried to help by giving it a bit more cynicism, but it wasn’t my favourite role. I enjoyed the music, and I loved Julie Andrews.

I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things – math, physics, chemistry – that I now use during those four years.

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.

I have a good mind but I don’t like to bore anyone with it.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

The Labour party is mainly full of amazing people who care so much about equality and social justice they are probably a bit of a bore at a family do.

Bore children, and they stop reading. There’s no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

Life can be a bore if you’re constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

Unrequited love’s a bore.

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

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

I don’t like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like what’s on the shelves.

I’ve always been into ‘fast-paced, don’t bore ’em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.’ You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can just let loose a little bit more in terms of fantasy and stuff.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

I have a wonderful wife I met at Rutgers while we were both there. She was in the Ph.D. program. She is not an actress. She definitely brings balance to my life. We actors can tend to bore anyone with shop talk.

The purpose of sports – even foreign sports – is not to bore people.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I’m a guy who’s either going to go full bore, or I’m not going to do it at all.

Never ask a bore a question.

That’s the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

Knowing what I’ll write about and what I won’t has never really been a problem. I won’t write about things that bore me.

That’s one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That’s the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don’t want to bore people my last three or four fights.

A lot of the things that bore adults don’t bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can’t remember what childhood was like.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be – not understood, but divined.

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 distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

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

What men don’t want, in fact what anyone who’s any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn’t want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.