Top 100 Because I'm Bored Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Because I'm Bored

#1. I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

Derek Sivers

#2. Goodbye. I'm leaving because I'm bored.

George Saunders

#3. When I get a fringe, it's because I'm bored or need a change; I always regret it!

Chloe Sevigny

#4. been bored is not a crime but one must have someting to do for a living

Zee

#5. The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

Steven Tyler

#6. it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

Andy Andrews

#8. I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Roger Ebert

#9. I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. ( ... ) Boredom opens up the space, for new engagements. Without boredom, no creativity. If you are not bored, you just stupidly enjoy the situation in which you are.

Slavoj Zizek

#10. Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

Robert Downey Jr.

#11. I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit. I chose the messed up characters because I find that that's acting. I want to explore emotions that you otherwise wouldn't be able to explore.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#12. People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

Alex Tabarrok

#13. Life is so interesting that sometimes it can make you bored.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar,

Elena Tonra

#15. There are oceans of things to discover, to explore, to learn, to invent, to create in this world; especially with its modern possibilities offered. So, I don't understand when people complain they're bored and have nothing to do.

Sahara Sanders

#16. But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all which he bore with patience rather than sever the ribbons of his helmet.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#17. The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

Jim Lovell

#18. Angry Leontine Sergeant, angry Aerian Commander in Chief, slightly bored Dragon, and panicked human - you could practically call it a racial congress, with humans in their usual position.

Michelle Sagara

#19. When I got bored, I conjugated verbs. Kissing and conjugating go well together. They're both French. No.

Rebekah Crane

#20. Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

Hugh Howey

#21. Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.

Srikumar Rao

#22. I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

John Steinbeck

#23. When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any ... I became a little isolated, a little terrified, and it's a good place to get writing, because you're so bored. So I wrote a few screenplays, and people notice those.

Clark Gregg

#24. I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

Neil Gaiman

#25. Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity ... In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

Susan Cain

#26. We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.

William B. Irvine

#27. I got fired once for putting like a packet of biscuits through a fan - I was really bored.

Gold Panda

#28. After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

Leonard Cohen

#29. I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

Kevin Nealon

#30. I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.

Wes Borland

#31. In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.

Anthony Jeselnik

#32. I'm busy, but I'm also bored." "So,

Nancy Baker

#33. I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

Diane Kruger

#34. i am always bored." (gwendolen harleth)

George Eliot

#35. There's an imp inside me, and if I don't let him out to make some mischief now and then, the world just gets too damned dull. I hate feeling grumpy and bored. I'm an enthusiast, and the more dangerous my life becomes, the happier I am.

Paul Auster

#36. My mother sighed, making me feel that I was placing an intolerable burden on her, and yet making me resent having to feel this weight. She looked tired, as she often did these days. Her tiredness bored me, made me want to attack her for it.

Margaret Laurence

#37. I came to realize that I get less bored on my own than I do in the company of some man who doesn't altogether appeal to me.

Alex Capus

#38. I am fairly tired
bored beyond endurance
by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

Henry Adams

#39. I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

David Suchet

#40. Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

Renee Fleming

#41. It's hard having kids because it's boring ... It's just being with them on the floor while they be children. They read Clifford the Big Red Dog to you at a rate of 50 minutes a page, and you have to sit there and be horribly proud and bored at the same time.

Louis C.K.

#42. I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.

Anna Popplewell

#43. But as I remember it, he looked alternately bored and preoccupied throughout the meal, as if, while one part of him was drinking Bordeaux and cutting his food into bite-sized morsels, the other half was engaged with shepherding a herd of goats across a bone-dry plain.

Nicole Krauss

#44. People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything.

J.D. Salinger

#45. It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

C. Robert Cargill

#46. If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.

Nat Wolff

#47. If you're bored tonight why don't you write down everything that comes to mind when you hear the word toothpaste?

Jaclyn Moriarty

#48. Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

Gene Perret

#49. Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along. Sure, corporate worship is good- but for me, I get very bored in Church trying to worship.

Reese Roper

#50. To anyone who thinks eating disorders are something rich, bored white girls do to get attention, I bid you bite me. I have frequent, intense, inappropriate outbursts of anger over the lies little girls are told about what is beautiful.

Stacy Pershall

#51. Reading means never being bored and never being lonely. My books are my friends; they always provide me with a place to go.

Satinder Bhatti

#52. Cocaine is yucky. I did it once: I was at a party; I was bored. I was like, 'Alright, I'll do a line.' Then I was just bored longer.

Bonnie McFarlane

#53. I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.

Mary Roach

#54. My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.

Evelyn Glennie

#55. The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

W. H. Auden

#56. I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

Edie Sedgwick

#57. If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

Christian Louboutin

#58. We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard ... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin ... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

Joey Ramone

#59. Yet is it not the heart but the members of play that elevate us above the beasts: the fingers with which we touch the clavichord or the flute, the tongue with which we jest and lie and seduce. Lacking members of play, what is there left for beasts to do when they are bored but sleep?

J.M. Coetzee

#60. It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored.

Stephen Batchelor

#61. There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes and, to some extent, we've internalized them, because that's so ubiquitous. That's why I'm so bored with the conversation about who's a racist and who's not.

Tim Wise

#62. Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

Sharon Stone

#63. Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?

Caroline Dhavernas

#64. Ikuto! Are you ditching again? I'm bored, meow.

Peach-Pit

#65. I don't think your girlfriend likes me." Putting on the most bored face I can muster, I add deadpan, "I'm torn up." Shaking his head at me, he mutters, "Yeah, I can see that.

Belle Aurora

#66. If we get total certainty, we get ... bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Tony Robbins

#67. You and I? It may end badly. I may get hurt. But guess what? I don't care! I've never had my heart broken. Maybe I'm fine with risking it, because it's better than being afraid and going through life bored.

Jasinda Wilder

#68. I was too apathetic to be bored or anxious. Boredom and anxiety were the neurotic cousins of concern; they implied wishes. I had no wishes or wants. I didn't even want dope. I only needed it.

Ellen Miller

#69. If I am not moving I get bored very easily.

Adriana Lima

#70. Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

Renata Adler

#71. I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.

Carol Vorderman

#72. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

H.P. Lovecraft

#73. I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

Robyn Davidson

#74. If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#75. Sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

Lena Dunham

#76. We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#77. She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.

Natalie Standiford

#78. A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different moments of your femininity, not just one thing, because everybody can get bored.

Monica Bellucci

#79. Artists never seem to get bored with life.

John Kurtz

#80. God was bored with the humans, so he invented alcohol.

John Kenney

#81. If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that.

Eva Amurri

#82. There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#83. You'll pay," she said stonily. "You won't be like this by this time tomorrow."
"Bored and pissed off? God, I hope not.

MaryJanice Davidson

#84. Life was full of so many possibilities - why should you spend even one day of it being bored?

Mia Sheridan

#85. Speak out your mind and your heart, you won't be bored.

Lights

#86. Sleep is for the rich and the bored.

V.E Schwab

#87. Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing.

Aidan Chambers

#88. Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron

#89. Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.

Michael Gambon

#90. On a farm, you can get very bored.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#91. I've spoken to Sid," she admits. "He says he's never seen Charlie so bad. He won't eat, he's lost weight and he looks terrible. Sid says it's the first time he's ever been so bored by him that he's considered smothering him.

Lily Morton

#92. Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.

Margaret Atwood