Top 100 Bored People Quotes
#1. Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
Renata Adler
#2. If you really want to succeed, you'll have to go for it every day like I do. The big time isn't for slackers. Keep up your mental stamina and remain curious. I think that bored people are unintelligent people.
Donald Trump
#4. Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.
Lisa Unger
#5. Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?
Amy Dickinson
#6. It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.
Paul Horn
#7. Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease.
Yukio Mishima
#8. Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Renata Adler
#9. Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
Idries Shah
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.
Anna Popplewell
#16. 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
#17. Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.
Gene Perret
#18. 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
#19. Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!
Eckhart Tolle
#20. I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.
Michelle Rodriguez
#21. It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.
Thomas Szasz
#22. There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.
Peter Temple
#23. Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.
Zig Ziglar
#24. He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.
Gustave Flaubert
#25. I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.
Christa Campbell
#26. Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths
Duncan Long
#27. I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things in the cinema when they come out, just to keep my eye on the competition. I'm bored when I'm not working.
Sam Riley
#28. Yet again, isn't there something terrible in randomness - the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it's just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.
Aeschylus
#29. I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.
Mark Ronson
#30. I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then moving into a different group of people. I love being able to stop. That's one of the greatest benefits we have in our profession.
Jeremy Irons
#31. Yes, I did," he says casually. "In the first minute I met them. Then in the second minute, I decided I wasn't going to be into dudes who treat others like crap only because they can. And then in the third, I actually stopped noticing they were around. I'm easily bored around stupid people.
Melina Marchetta
#32. You say you are bored; you have nothing to do; you cannot be interested in people just because they are people, but only try it! Do things without being interested, and perhaps the interest will grow.
Florence Converse
#33. I think people get bored of grief," said Natasha. "It's like you're allowed some unspoken allotted time - six months maybe - and then they get faintly irritated that you're not 'better,' like you're being self-indulgent hanging on to your unhappiness.
Jojo Moyes
#34. Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.
Peter Diamandis
#35. I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.
Lily Cole
#36. Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.
Jack Welch
#37. A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren't willing to stay bored a little longer.
Paul Aurandt Jr.
#38. There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#39. Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing.
Jim Elliot
#40. You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
Neil Gaiman
#41. The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.
Frederick Lenz
#42. I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
Jacki Weaver
#43. I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things.
Only end them.
Chuck Palahniuk
#44. I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.
A.R. Rahman
#45. For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.
Roger Waters
#46. Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.
John Thorn
#47. Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. People will get bored of the pot and move on down the line to stronger drugs to get the high they need. They either stay with pot or quit.
Steven Machat
#48. Famous people consume us because we are bored.
Lauren Groff
#49. Courage is not my leading virtue. I've always avoided change of any sort, operating on the principle of safety first. I married a "safe" man. I've made my living performing humdrum work, work that bored other people so much that they'd pay someone else to do it.
Christina Bartolomeo
#50. No more shame, no more insecurity - just the easy give and take between three people who never got bored with unwrapping the many layers of each other's fantasies. You
Kit Rocha
#51. There I found my sole comfort: Jesus, my only friend. I could talk only to Him. Talking to other people bored me, even when we spoke about religion. I felt it better to speak to God than about Him. There's often so much self-love involved in chatter about spiritual things!
John Beevers
#52. Doing nothing was much more productive than people thought; Jackson often had his most profound insights when he appeared to be entirely idle. He didn't get bored, he just went into a nothing kind of place.
Kate Atkinson
#53. Sport is the big giveaway. Wherever sport plays a big part in people's lives you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting to break up the furniture.
J.G. Ballard
#54. I'm a known fugitive who likes to set people on fire. Come away with me so we can have hot sex while the entire city is trying to shoot me in the head. If I get bored, I'll barbecue you for my amusement. Sure, let me get my shoes.
Ilona Andrews
#55. Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.
Anton Du Beke
#56. Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again.
"So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking ...
J.K. Rowling
#57. I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time ... it's meat loaf again ... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.
Johnny Depp
#58. The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.
Jilly Cooper
#59. Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#60. As long as there are still interesting stories and still interesting people that we want to meet, I can keep it going. But, we all have to be invested. If the room starts getting bored or I start getting restless, then we'll either have to change something in the show or maybe end it.
Jenji Kohan
#61. A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.
Clint Eastwood
#63. But you know, only boring people get bored. They have to prod themselves continually in order to feel alive.
Charles Bukowski
#64. Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever ...
Toni Morrison
#65. Writing is my own personal therapy. It's cheaper than a real shrink and I get to kill people off when I grow bored of them.
Jack Tate
#66. People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
Kenneth Clark
#67. I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory of settings, events and people. I weave history into my stories, but my narratives are made up.
Sefi Atta
#68. Nostalgia is a powerful drug to which intelligent and sensitive people resort when they are bored or frightened by the times they are living in; and comforting doses are increased as their dislike of the present is reinforced by dread of the future.
John Gloag
#69. I feel like people are starting to come around and embrace rock. Because I guess they're getting sick of the stale sounds of certain electronica. They kind of get really bored with the fact that it's so self-indulgent.
Jason Reece
#70. People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
Jackson Pollock
#71. I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
Nancy Mitford
#72. A girl who pays attention is very cool. It's really hard to pay attention to someone. I understand. I get it. I get bored a lot when I'm talking to people, but I try. So I'd like for the girl to try, too.
Chris D'Elia
#73. Only boring people get bored, says Dad. Interesting people can always find something to be interested in.
Josh Lacey
#75. People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#76. All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first
Mary Quant
#78. Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!
Wendy O. Williams
#79. When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Eric Hoffer
#80. Piper, we do not kill people when we're bored. Even if there are dead people all around us.
Emily Rose
#81. If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting the boundaries. You don't poke people in the eye; you do things they haven't seen before and make it accessible, funny and clever.
Matthew Vaughn
#82. All terrific but the people. THE PEOPLE. Everyone looks so exalted, or so wretched, or so spiffy, so funny, so splendid. If you are ever bored or blue, stand on the street corner for half an hour.
Maira Kalman
#83. I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people - people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin - that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life.
Gillian Flynn
#84. Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.
Eckhart Tolle
#85. I'm never bored. Only people bore me, so I avoid them
Dexter Petley
#86. Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.
Geoffrey Ward
#88. Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.
Jack Kerouac
#89. People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.
Tracy McMillan
#90. There are a lot of self important people who make you believe they're artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I've sat down and listened to them and just been bored.
George Hamilton
#91. The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.
Ann Landers
#92. I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.
Lennox Lewis
#93. Arousal is a fairly complex thing. Many people masturabate when they're bored, not because they're aroused. (Dima)
Aleksandr Voinov
#94. So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.
Peter J. Carroll
#95. People will put up with being terrified but no one will tolerate being bored.
James Kennedy
#96. I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this
I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.
L.M. Montgomery
#97. In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring ...
Andre Gide
#98. Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away.
Jeanette Winterson
#99. Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.
Neil Innes
#100. The things that motivated most people bored me.
Carl R. Cart
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