Top 100 Quotes About Bored
#2. The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they've heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out of your mind.
Ted Shackelford
#3. Fang? Are you- like Max?" asked Dr. Martinez.
"Nope,"he said, sounding bored. "I'm the smart one."
I resisted the urge to kick him in the shin.
James Patterson
#4. I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.
Debi Mazar
#5. The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.
Luke Taylor
#6. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
Andy Warhol
#7. Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.
Lou Reed
#8. I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.
Rhona Mitra
#9. I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I'd be bored, and I would call him. He'd interview me.
Bob Newhart
#10. Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.
Walker Percy
#11. When I got here, I did get bored ... I got more and more nervous here too, not knowing anybody. And I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. It's the one thing I can't do.
John Green
#12. I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.
Laila Ali
#13. Haven't you watched the feeds?" Winter asked her, more gently. "Vampires like anything and everything that keeps them from getting bored. Anything and everything."
Holly Black
#14. For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.
Marcel Tabuteau
#15. I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afraid I've left the kettle on or whatever it is people say when they're bored.
Catherynne M Valente
#16. I definitely like a little bit of darkness, a little edge. I get a little bored when things are maybe too simple or too ... expected.
Deborah Ann Woll
#17. The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
Mary Wilson Little
#18. Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?
Bill Watterson
#19. I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored
Cassandra Clare
#20. Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.
People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.
Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring.
Dean Koontz
#22. Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They're bored with their lives, and there's nothing they can do about it. They're eaten alive by longing, and they're dead before they die.
Lev Grossman
#23. We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
Bill Williams
#25. No Scrabble. More and more of his friends were playing it now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-score-craving freaks, but it seemed to him like a game designed expressly to make him feel stupid and bored.
David Nicholls
#26. I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
Ira Glass
#27. There's no time to be bored. I'm so busy doing the horse dance.
Psy
#28. You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!
Edith Wharton
#29. I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.
Justin Chadwick
#31. Everything is in a state of becoming more then it is; otherwise we would all be bored.
Shepherd Hoodwin
#32. We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.
Thom Yorke
#33. Hazel kissed boys for all kinds of reasons
because they were cute, because she was a little drunk, because she was bored, because they let her, because it was fun, because they looked lonely, because it blotted out her fears for a while, because she wasn't sure how many kisses she had left.
Holly Black
#34. When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.
Edward VIII
#35. He looked up at Mathis to see how bored he was getting with these introspective refinements of what, to Mathis, was a simple question of duty. Mathis smiled back at him.
Ian Fleming
#36. I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.
Arca
#37. There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it. I really felt that movies had to have that life of vivid colors.
Susanne Bier
#38. Such individuals lead vigorous lives, are open to a variety of experiences, keep on learning until the day they die, and have strong ties and commitments to other people and to the environment in which they live. They enjoy whatever they do, even if tedious or difficult; they are hardly ever bored,
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#39. Within twelve hours of the Sunday Herald hitting the streets, Golgotham suddenly found itself besieged by the young, bored, and semi-affluent.
Nancy A. Collins
#40. After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#41. I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
Albert Camus
#42. I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.
Jerry Saltz
#43. If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.
Giacomo Leopardi
#44. Our schedules are so hectic we can't get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constantly looking for something to amuse us. We are the most frantic generation in history - and also the most entertained. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.
Billy Graham
#45. Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.
Shane Carruth
#46. So I learned that even after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He'd have laid up enough memories never to be bored. Obviously, in one way, this was a compensation.
Anonymous
#47. As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
Ian Gomez
#48. Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.
Bertrand Russell
#49. I guess I've just gotten to the point where I don't want to be bored by the characters that I play, and I don't want to feel like I'm having to make something more interesting or I'm having to force something that's not really there on the page.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#51. I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.
Eli Roth
#52. Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
#53. I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while - that's how they learn to be creative.
Kim Raver
#54. My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality's nice. You never get bored. You can't say the grass is always greener if you're in both backyards.
Hilarie Burton
#55. When I know too much I get bored too fast.
Nikki Sixx
#58. You're going to have time to get bored, Maya. Take advantage of it to write down the monumental stupidities you've committed, see if you can come to grips with them,
Isabel Allende
#59. He carries books everywhere he goes so he won't have to be bored by people.
Alice Hoffman
#60. When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up.
Christian Bale
#61. I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.
Carolyn Murphy
#62. I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
Charlemagne Palestine
#63. Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard
Tyne O'Connell
#64. There,of course,was Alex. He wasn't watching Amanda.He was looking over her head, his bored gaze skimming over the room. Before I could turn away, it had found mine. He didn't smile; he certainly didn't wave.But he didn't look away.And I had absolutely no idea what to do.
Melissa Jensen
#65. I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.
Russell T. Davies
#66. Take time to be bored. One time I heard a coworker say, When I get busy, I get stupid.
Austin Kleon
#67. The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
#68. I undertook something that not everyone may undertake: I descended into the depths, I bored into the foundations
Friedrich Nietzsche
#69. I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
Adam Lamberg
#70. We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#71. If a player doesn't understand what's happening, he gets frustrated. If he knows it all (or thinks he does), he gets bored. The sweet spot called "fun" exists between these two extremes.
Anonymous
#72. I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
Eli Broad
#73. I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.
Pina Bausch
#74. As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.
Compay Segundo
#75. It's good to be bored in the car, I always tell him. Spend some time with just yourself and your thoughts and nothing to do. How else will you learn who you are?
Lauren Graham
#76. That's what happens with most comedies. If you watch 10 minutes and there's no joke, then you're disappointed because you're expecting jokes. The same goes for emotional movies. You have to feel something. If you don't feel anything for 10 minutes, you get bored.
Quentin Dupieux
#77. Do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.
Jack Kerouac
#78. Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long."
Eric Andre
#79. I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.
Jewel
#80. There is a lot to do in life than to get bored with.
M.F. Moonzajer
#81. I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.
Tate Donovan
#82. To become bored with eating is to be bored with life.
John Berger
#83. He wakes up utterly bored and discomfited, chagrined to think that he did not die overnight.
Henry Miller
#84. Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
Barbara Johnson
#85. I am 42 years old and I have $9000, and I am out of ideas. I've nothing to spend it on. I'm bored shitless. I will die with that $9000.
Doug Stanhope
#86. I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect them to be bored and just stare at you blankly. And that's exactly what you'll get at a comedy club. If you can toughen up with a cow audience, then you'll never be worried with a human audience.
Kristen Schaal
#87. We are the ones who get bored because our capacity to focus our attention, to delight our minds in sustained thought, has been weakened by our dependence on external stimuli.
John Ortberg
#88. The world is drowning in weirdness and lies ... and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!
Inio Asano
#89. I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.
Roger Glover
#90. I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.
Juliana Hatfield
#91. Why do women have to be so complicated, Wellborn?" he grumbled. The butler shook his head, a hint of a smile lighting his eyes. "I suppose God wanted to ensure we never grew bored, sir.
Karen Witemeyer
#92. Last thing I needed was a fling with some well-to-do, danger-seeking fangirl. She was probably just a bored housewife, looking for the kind of hard fuck she wasn't getting from her uptight husband.
Pam Godwin
#93. I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
Holly Black
#94. People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.
Salman Rushdie
#95. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
#96. I'm the kind of person, who, when bored or unhappy, either drinks myself into oblivion or cooks very unhealthy things; Sally is the kind of person who, when bored or unhappy, goes jogging or cleans the bathroom with a toothbrush or matriculates at rabbinical school.
Julie Powell
#97. I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.
Iman Abdulmajid
#98. One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored.
Jim Butcher
#99. You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
Haruki Murakami
#100. And it's not that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live any more. That's not what it feels like. It feels more like I'm tired and bored and the party's gone on too long and I want to go home.
Nick Hornby
