Boring Someone Quotes

#1. 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.

Celia Imrie

#2. All romantics meet the same fate some day.
Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

Joni Mitchell

#3. Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Larry Wall

#4. There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

Thom Yorke

#5. It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

Ozzy Osbourne

#6. Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Shirley Hazzard

#7. The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"
because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk

E. Lockhart

#9. If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#10. I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

John Green

#11. Nora, I believe life's like a good book. Time makes up the pages that will be your story. Every time your life changes, you start a new chapter. To me, there's nothing more depressing than someone getting to the end of their days and realizing they've only written one long, boring passage.

Elizabeth Isaacs

#12. People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It's boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you're a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character.

Mark Sutton

#13. You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for something crazy to f***ing happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f*** me over! Do you know what I mean?

Kristen Stewart

#14. I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

Francesca Annis

#15. Life is so interesting ... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

Ricky Gervais

#16. Somewhere, someone isn't impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You're unbelievably boring to more people than you'll ever know.

Henry Rollins

#17. Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.

Twiggy

#18. Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.

Tony Perrottet

#19. Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just
being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is boring!

Demi Lovato

#20. Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

Amanda Peet

#21. You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.

Bill Murray

#22. The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation; and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#23. It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.

Sandra Bullock

#24. For someone who's made it clear that her life is superior to every other student's at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#25. The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying

Lee Owens

#26. I want everyone to know I'm coming out of retirement because it's time to free the MMA world of the virus that's known as Tito Ortiz. We've been suffering through his boring fights for too many years, and it's about time that someone beats it out of him once and for all.

Stephan Bonnar

#27. You think I'm boring, don't you?"Alec seemed amused as he leaned in closer to me. Exhausted, I laughed and put my hands on my hips, fighting to keep myself from making eye contact. "Yes. But you're pretty to look at, so as long as someone doesn't scratch your face off, you'll always have that!

Rachel Van Dyken

#28. I had a talk with God today. However, it was very boring talking with God. You cannot learn something from someone who knows exactly everything that you do.

Lionel Suggs

#29. It was loud and crazy, and sometimes someone got shot with a stray poisoned arrow, but it was never boring.

Anonymous

#30. You cannot force someone to think like you, and why would you want to? It would be like having a conversation with yourself. How boring is that?

Shelley K. Wall

#31. It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.

John Lennon

#32. Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.

Allison Tolman

#33. To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.

Brian K. Vaughan

#34. There will be a Skype movie soon ... someone will crack the code, and it will be great. Then, there'll be 30 Skype movies, and we'll be like, 'Oh, that's boring.'

Drew Goddard

#35. Life is a book that someone else is reading - and you, a key character - hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#36. I don't want to be with someone boring because I'm always laughing. I like to play jokes on people and be sarcastic.

Ashley Benson

#37. Her eyes searched his, boring into his with the familiarity of someone who'd known him his whole life. She was confused and hurt, but talking about it wouldn't help, would only weaken his resolve. He wanted her so badly, he ached inside.

Katy Regnery

#38. That's why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.

Cassandra Clare

#39. That would make it the fifth time since I'd started working at the university that I'd thrown someone out of one of those rooms for inappropriate behavior. And they say a library is a boring place to work.

Samantha Young

#40. I could feel someone watching me. Eyes boring a hole in the back of my neck, crawling over my skin.

Kaitlin Bevis

#41. You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

Topher Grace

#42. Trust is nothing when you have it. It's bread and milk. Basic. There's no glamour, no emotion, no drama - you just trust and that's it. Trusting someone is boring. It's a non-event. But take it away - try living without trust and suddenly your relationship is plunged into a living hellhole.

Kate Kerrigan

#43. A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

Max Tundra

#44. We can't imagine anything more boring than to live with someone who doesn't care about food or eating or sharing meals.

Mireille Guiliano

#45. For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone's dead in the face, it's really boring.

Louise Nurding

#46. A life lived alone simply feels long and boring. But a life shared with someone you love reaches the place of parting in no time at all.

Kyoichi Katayama

#47. Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism.

Frederick Lenz

#48. Why would I want to be someone's beck and call girl? Predictable is boring, Ace. And from what I hear, you seeem to get bored real quick.

K. Bromberg

#49. 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.

Annette Bening

#50. When something happens to me - good, bad, boring it doesn't matter - I have to tell someone to make it count. There's no point in anything happening if you can't talk about it.

Maureen Johnson

#51. 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.

Jenny Agutter

#52. My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

Victoria Aveyard

#53. I know what you mean", she said. "Families can seem so normal and boring from the inside that you don't know you're different until someone else makes you feel different.

Kate Scelsa

#54. I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

Mark Haddon

#55. I think the biggest mistake you can make in creator owned work is having info-dumps like, "Here's how this world works!" It's just like someone playing dungeon master and boring me with the backstory of their f***ing world. Just bring me into you story and get it cooking.

Rick Remender

#56. No matter how much we have in common with someone, we will always have something that sets us apart; makes us different; unique. This is a good thing. Just think how boring the world would be if everyone were all the same!

Raven Williams

#57. What I know now is that nothing is universally boring - what's boring to you could be totally engaging to someone else. If you're bored and hating it, it's a big sign that you're most likely just in the wrong place.

Sophia Amoruso

#58. Greta abides by the reasonable philosophy that there is nothing in the universe more boring than someone else's dreams.

Elan Mastai