Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
If you didn’t know that I am an actress, I don’t think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She’s 16, so of course I bore her.
I don’t pray because I don’t want to bore God.
I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.
Let’s face it, sightseeing can be a bore at times.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
I don’t know – sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it’s annoying. I think, ‘Get over it.’ I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I’m sure I am obsessive.
I don’t want to bore people with things that don’t matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
Of course, it’s no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that’s coming, and it’s a bore.
A lot of people make records where there are a couple songs worth listening to and you skip through the rest, and I don’t want to do that because those records bore me pretty bad.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
I never want to bore the public.
Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he’s chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione – she’s working harder than anyone, she’s half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn’t be there at all. It’s so unfair that Harry’s the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
I just want to win. I love winning. It does not bore me.
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
In Australia you can be a little bit more attacking, in places on the subcontinent you’ve got to find ways to get batsmen out, you might have to bore them out.
I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.
If you cannot bore your friends to death about your own small business, then something is seriously wrong.
Once you realise you’re carrying around lots of pain, I think go to therapy so you release yourself. You don’t want to be a problem bore, poor me.
For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
‘Thou shalt not bore’ is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.
I heard one story about an octopus in a home tank who would get out, cruise around the house, take knick-knacks, and drag them back to its tank. Like a dog! They’re so smart that there are octopus enrichment handbooks so you don’t bore your octopus. I’ve seen them play with Legos, Mr. Potato Head, you name it!
I like to mix it up, yeah. I don’t sort of think, ‘Oh, I need to do a comedy, I’ve done three dramas this year.’ I don’t think of it like that, but I definitely from project to project I feel like I want to just do something different all of the time and stop, I don’t want to bore myself or anyone else.
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
I didn’t get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it’s a bore. But it’s worth it.
Conservatives literally view it as a kind of a weakness to talk to people other than their own. Nothing would bore me more than to sit around talking and listening to a bunch of liberals all day.
If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they’re not going to believe it, and #B, they’re going to invest their time in other things anyway.
The real romantics are the boring ones – they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
Perhaps the world’s second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
Maybe the first secret is, ‘Don’t bore people.’
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
I don’t want to bore people with stories about being in rock n’ roll and being a mother. Other singers do it. I can, too. I just do what I have to do. It’s not that hard. It’s just different.
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
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