Quotes About Boring People

#1. I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

John W. Thompson

#2. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.

Fiona Thrust

#3. Sometimes we wonder what it's like to feel normal," Maida said. "You know, like all the people you see out on the streets or sitting in their little boxy homes."

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"But then", Maida went on, "we see how boring they are and we're happy to be the way we are.

Charles De Lint

#4. After living on the edge, the adrenalin, some people in the military get addicted. Anything else seem boring. They have to have the excitement.

Timothy McVeigh

#5. A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

Zooey Deschanel

#6. People think I'm Snow White ... the most boring person in the world!

Andrea McLean

#7. I don't think that I look, act and feel younger than I am, I know I do. I'm not irresponsible, just hyper and active like a younger person is. I have a lot of younger friends. I don't have any problems in particular with people my own age, save that I sometimes think they are boring.

Rudy Simone

#8. If it weren't for people that stand out, this whole world would be really, really boring.

Demi Lovato

#9. I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

Hedy Lamarr

#10. There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

Kathleen Hanna

#11. Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.

Mike Myers

#12. A lot of people view science as dull or boring, and I think the stance we take, using humour, not taking ourselves too seriously ... I think people enjoy that. I think it's quite refreshing.

Elise Andrew

#13. Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

Fritz Leiber

#14. You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

John Green

#15. I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story.

Sarah Wright

#16. People don't gotta like the same stuff. If they did, life would be pretty boring.

Erin Bowman

#17. Madness is a completely undervalued quality and I don't understand why people should hide it to conform to some boring version of themselves.

Christoph Fischer

#18. I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

Katy Perry

#19. Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

Mark Haddon

#20. People say that the Bible is a boring book ... but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#21. Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.

Rajneesh

#22. Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

Alan Watts

#23. Always re-invent yourself. Always try new things; new food, new hobbies, meet new people. That will keep your life from becoming stagnant and boring. And you will have a lot more fun!

Lisa Bedrick

#24. There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

Paris Hilton

#25. Sometimes it's boring because it takes time, but it's enjoyable. So beating up people for a living is really fun.

Wladimir Klitschko

#26. I've probably been boring a lot of people for a long time. Strange to find comfort in the idea. There have always been things I felt I must tell them, even if no one listened or understood.

Marilynne Robinson

#27. Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.

Tim Tharp

#28. A lot of people work really diligently to maintain a "profile" in the writing world, but that's so hard, and so boring most of the time. So you just keep doing what you like to do, I guess, and try to enjoy it.

Dan Chaon

#29. The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#30. But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.

Emily Mortimer

#31. Boring people live boring lives.

Habeeb Akande

#32. Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

Dave Barry

#33. people don't pay attention to boring things

John Medina

#34. It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

Andy Borowitz

#35. Boring and unpleasant did not mean a task was 'unfruitful,' a fact a lot of people seemed not to know, or to willfully ignore.

Stephen King

#36. I always felt people who took themselves seriously were kind of boring.

George Hamilton

#37. It's just so cool when you meet people who are different than you are. That can give you a different perspective, a viewpoint on life, or inspire you. I mean, what would the world be like if we were all the same? I think it would be very boring.

Ciara

#38. A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and it's not worth it. You need to find something that is. So, maybe your life isn't boring, but it has to be unfulfilling.

J.M. Darhower

#39. Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

Jules Renard

#40. Don't feel bad - if your iPod is full of music made by nice, well-adjusted people, it's probably also full of terrible, boring music.

Anonymous

#41. There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

Eric Bogosian

#42. Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it.

Eugene Mirman

#43. Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.

Michael Broadbent

#44. The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

Charles Bukowski

#45. A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

Mary Wesley

#46. I fight cynicism. It's too easy. It's really boring. It's much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren't as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.

Ewan McGregor

#47. 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

#48. Plenty of people think the same thing. All of them are teenagers, mentally if not physically. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, gown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God.

Tana French

#49. Don't you think that is boring how people talk

Lorde

#50. It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.

William H. Macy

#51. I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

Rachel Joyce

#52. People's lives are boring.

Jimmy Kimmel

#53. There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.

Kristin Gore

#54. Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.

Ruta Sepetys

#55. I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.

Donna Karan

#56. You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.

Dave Gahan

#57. People who hate are boring. Love is where excitement lives.

Ragdoll Bones

#58. So, you got QVC? (Simi) Afraid not, sweetie. (Astrid) You got Soap Net? (Zarek shook his head.) You got any TV? (Simi) Sorry. (Zarek) Are you kidding? You boring people. A demon needs her cable. Akri done tricked me. He didn't tell me I'd have to go without cable. (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#59. 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

#60. We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

Gail Collins

#61. When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

Johnny Mathis

#62. The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

James Blunt

#63. Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.

Barney Frank

#64. He would talk about how important all music was. How it took us
not just the people who played it but the people who heard it
to a place above the normal boring world.

Jon Skovron

#65. Her sister had always teased her saying that people who drank tea were boring, but the ones who drank coffee were cool.

Anya Wylde

#66. The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

Elias Canetti

#67. People are complicated," she continued, "and the ones who aren't are boring."
"Then maybe I'm boring."
We looked at each other, and in a genuinely sad voice, she said, "Maybe you are.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#68. To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

Prince Harry

#69. I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring!

Kathleen Hanna

#70. The only real rule I know in writing is, Don't be boring. Sleeping people don't read a word you write or hear a thing you say. How can they? They are asleep. So don't put anyone to sleep, and you will probably do okay.

Max D. Adams

#71. Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Gene Hackman

#72. People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it's too long and boring.

William Lashner

#73. Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it's been used to tell bad or boring stories, it's not a problem with comics; it's a problem with the writers of those comics.

Marjane Satrapi

#74. Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

Michael Chabon

#75. Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedius, but not if you brought a book.

Robert Mailer Anderson

#76. I don't want to make videos where people are always happy and they're agreeing. It's boring! Do something where people can talk about it.

Michelle Phan

#77. But you know, only boring people get bored. They have to prod themselves continually in order to feel alive.

Charles Bukowski

#78. There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

Karl Lagerfeld

#79. You shouldn't be embarrassed by the things you do because that's who you are. Your quirks are what separate you from all of the dull, regular and boring people who all look and act the same as everyone else.

Benjamin Jones

#80. It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

W. H. Auden

#81. Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.

John Boyne

#82. I can't help noticing that the few people I've met in my life who haven't 'suffered' much have also been monumentally boring.

Francesca Martinez

#83. I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

Joe Posnanski

#84. In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.

Lionel Shriver

#85. 'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.

Elizabeth Warren

#86. I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

Berkeley Breathed

#87. The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.

Chinua Achebe

#88. It can be so boring being you sometimes, and if you were the most special thing like that, it could be really great, but maybe some people say the same thing about you, and you want to tell those people: 'No, you're stupid, it's no fun being me.

James Franco

#89. I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

John C. Reilly

#90. I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

Aimee Bender

#91. The only thing more boring than watching golf, is listening to people talk about the golf they are watching.

T.C. Slonaker

#92. There are no boring places, only boring people,

John Corey Whaley

#93. I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

Pat Oliphant

#94. Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.

Erika Lopez

#95. Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people.

C. JoyBell C.

#96. People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.

Isaac Hecker

#97. Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better than friends; the paid listener doesn't interrupt with his own experiences.

Helen Van Slyke

#98. I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.

Jason Silva

#99. Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.

Maureen F. McHugh

#100. I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just listen to the voices.

Peter Stormare