Words matter. These are the best Bores Quotes from famous people such as Jeff Lindsay, George Harrison, Peter Shaffer, William Golding, Oscar Wilde, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.
Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.
It’s an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him… he never bores me, and he doesn’t… not only bore me, that’s too strong a word.
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
Writing bores me so.
By training, I’m an engineer, but I don’t tell anyone because it bores people.
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he’s running against.
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
I’m lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there’s ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
I didn’t want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King’s Road. If I don’t fade into a room at White’s, that’s fine. My father was chairman of Brooks’ and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he’s running against.
When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
I’m lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there’s ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it’s going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don’t know if they’re going to live or die.
Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
I just don’t want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I’ll fake a knee injury and get out of there.
I have played characters where I haven’t been absorbed – you know, what I call a typical film leading man role where you just have to look gorgeous and be attractive and charming. It bores me. I like a bit of dirt, a bit of sand in the oyster.
Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
To be honest with you, there’s nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I’ve got friends that are actors. They’re interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there’s a part of me that doesn’t like it.
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
The truth is I don’t watch TV at all. It bores me.
Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.
I don’t understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it’s because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I’d rather not do it at all.
To be honest with you, there’s nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I’ve got friends that are actors. They’re interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there’s a part of me that doesn’t like it.
I want to be the first person to animate bags – everything done for handbags bores me to tears – I want to make it more playful.
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.
Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
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 have played characters where I haven’t been absorbed – you know, what I call a typical film leading man role where you just have to look gorgeous and be attractive and charming. It bores me. I like a bit of dirt, a bit of sand in the oyster.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.
Variety is important when it comes to exercise. I don’t do anything that bores me to tears.
I just don’t want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I’ll fake a knee injury and get out of there.
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.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
If I talk to a new guy, it’s because the old guy bores me, and I already wrote a bunch of songs about him.
When your protagonist bores you, you’re in trouble.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.
I’ve never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I’ve got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of ‘American Idol,’ we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don’t believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make ‘American Idol ‘a better show.
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
The pop-star thing bores me because it’s somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don’t say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there – you’re not even a human being. You’re a puppet.
I don’t understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it’s because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I’d rather not do it at all.
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over ‘The Wall Street Journal’ or the ‘Financial Times’ and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
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