Top 630 Boring Quotes

I consider politics very boring.

I think people have the wrong idea of ‘Moby Dick’ as this somber, boring thing.

Harmony is boring.

So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

If you’re you, it doesn’t matter if you’re the most boring person in the world: someone will like you. You’re not trying to be anyone else.

The ’50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the ’60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff – like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I’m very grateful for… I thank him for it regularly.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

Maybe philosophy – I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it’s terribly boring.

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it’s always playing the long, boring notes.

I know one thing – if I didn’t have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring – an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

I’m a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.

As much as everyone says that Superman is good, a lot of other people might say that that’s why they find him boring… A lot of Batman fans might say that.

I feel like a total hippie right now. I’m passionate about all sorts of things – a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest.

I’d hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It’d make it boring, and I wouldn’t have anything to work towards. It’s not to everyone’s taste, but I can only be me.

We’re at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we’re still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity… Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That’s boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don’t exist.

‘I Am Number Four’ definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

Acting’s boring.

I don’t want to be boring. But that’s not always easy.

Both villains and heroes are a bit boring, really, unless they’re flawed and broken somehow. If they’re not flawed and broken, then clearly they need to be broken and made flawed. That’s what an author does if he or she has any dignity.

It’s just so cool when you meet people who are different than you are. That can give you a different perspective, a viewpoint on life, or inspire you. I mean, what would the world be like if we were all the same? I think it would be very boring.

There’s no conversation more boring than talking about what it’s really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don’t care.

You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better – I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry – you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back – the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I’ll take the great company any day.

Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.

I do retweet some of the things that people say about the things I’ve done, but I don’t necessarily want to use it to promote myself because I find that it gets kind of boring. There should just be a whole different site for that. Because it’s just kind of boring and gross to use it just self-promotion.

How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?

I don’t like American football. I think it’s boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It’s played on a diamond.

Meat, to me, it’s slightly boring. Hold on, I love meat too, but only once in a while. You get a piece of meat, and you put it in your mouth, you chew, the first five seconds, all the juices flow around your mouth, they’re gone, and then you are 20 more seconds chewing something that is tasteless at this point.

I think we can all be divas, but as an actress, you can’t only be the diva; that would be boring. But sometimes, perhaps, it’s fun.

To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That’s a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you’ve played a lot of idealized characters. So when you’ve got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that’s interesting.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don’t like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: ‘Write what you know.’ Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies’ cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.

American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

You can’t pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It’s better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That’s dangerous.

I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, ‘But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?’ I’ve never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I’ll bother now.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

My office. It’s drab and boring but quiet.

I’ve done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I’m young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It’s not a new man thing, it’s just largely a boring man who doesn’t mind staying in the house thing.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I’m convinced that it comes from within. If you’re happy and healthy, it shows.

When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that’s when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.

I have nothing bad to say about Briedis. His style is a bit boring, but I respect him. Briedis is a world champion, so he has to be good.

I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism – aren’t they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I’m a little bit politically incorrect.

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

Audiences don’t want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There’s the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.