Quotes About Boring Things

#1. There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

David Eagleman

#2. Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Steve Lacy

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

John Medina

#4. It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

Nathan Myhrvold

#5. I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

Ian Williams

#6. It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.

David Archuleta

#7. a good way to make some cash without worrying about boring things like originality or operating capital.

Leonard Richardson

#8. We hurry through the so-called boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting. Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that every thing in every moment is 'essential' and that nothing at all is 'important.'

Helen M. Luke

#9. I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#10. I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

Bob Balaban

#11. I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

Thomas Massie

#12. I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

Sue Townsend

#13. I miss talking to you.'
'I can't imagine why. We haven't talked about anything particularly interesting in years.'
'I thought it was interesting. Perhaps I like talking about boring things with you.

Eloisa James

#14. I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

Gemma Arterton

#15. We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want. Some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait. We live on this whole idea.

Karl Lagerfeld

#16. The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things,

John Medina

#17. I like boring things.

Andy Warhol

#18. I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

Jo Brand

#19. The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.

Donald Wuerl

#20. How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

Catherynne M Valente

#21. Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Smooth roads are boring; hard roads are hurting! Through boredom, you learn nothing and you get nothing; through hurt, you learn many things and you get wisdom! Never afraid of hard roads and always prefer them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Kathleen Hanna

#24. 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

#25. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends'.

Robyn Schneider

#26. As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#27. The desert is hot and boring, I'm sorry but that's pretty much all there is to it. It's also sandy, but rocks are essentially dull things and breaking them up into really small pieces doesn't improve matters.

Mark Lawrence

#28. Few things are more boring than fruitless arguments!

Georgette Heyer

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.

Shamir

#32. The rain was steady and unrelenting and, like all steady and unrelenting things, boring.

Ross Thomas

#33. But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...

Anne Frank

#34. Life is boring if you only do necessary things.

Amanda Sun

#35. I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

Annie E. Clark

#36. I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.

Adrian Tomine

#37. 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

#38. To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.

Theo James

#39. It was like sitting through a movie, no matter how boring or confusing, until the end. Because at the end, sometimes things were explained or the ending itself was cool enough that you felt like sitting through all the boring stuff had been worth it.

Dennis Lehane

#40. The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

Michael Bay

#41. Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

Stephen Hawking

#42. 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

#43. So, to all you introverts out there, do not feel embarrassed or boring for being a person who prefers things that are hygge.

Meik Wiking

#44. I feel like a total hippie right now. I'm passionate about all sorts of things - a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest.

Dreama Walker

#45. Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.

Ellen Hopkins

#46. Life would be boring if we knew how things would turn out in the future. You don't plot out your life and then live it. You live your life and see how it turns out.

Lisa Scott

#47. 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

#48. Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.

Doris Lessing

#49. I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.

Billy Al Bengston

#50. Anyone who says that softball is a boring game to watch isn't looking at the right things.

Yvonne Zipter

#51. I reached a point where I didn't think I was that great. I'm not being humble. I was looking at things and thinking: 'You're not really good in that'. I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody's fault except mine - probably - and it might not even be my fault.

Michael Keaton

#52. I think comfort, stability, and love are the things that really let me be happy. Deep down inside I'm a little boring, I guess.

Jeffrey Brown

#53. I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.

Fran Lebowitz

#54. Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Rem Koolhaas

#55. I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.

Joaquin Phoenix

#56. And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

Richard Attenborough

#57. Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

Christopher Hitchens

#58. (Dad) could not abide us feeling sorry for ourselves. Life was far too good for us to whine about small things. It was selfish, and on top of that, it was boring.

Jean Kennedy Smith

#59. I do loads of one-pot things because I feel like you can't go too far wrong. And I make a lot of soups and casseroles, which is so boring, but it's the only thing I can do!

Sophie McShera

#60. Things are only boring if you are boring.

Will Self

#61. Toodles! Don't do the things I wouldn't do if they're boring,

Alanea Alder

#62. When his father asked why A wasn't apple or B wasn't bird or C wasn't cat, young Ambrose explained that things didn't always have to be the way you'd expect. Everybody does apples and birds and cats, he said, and it's boring to do what everybody else does.

C.S. Richardson

#63. Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

Seanan McGuire

#64. Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!

M. J. Hyland

#65. There are 2 main things I've learned about following the Holy Spirit: It will never be easy. It will never be boring.

Mark Hart

#66. The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They're the whole reason for making and needing art. So you might as well go ahead and begin in whatever way you can right now.

Miranda July

#67. A lot of actors won't do things because they say it is boring when you are always working. A lot of them won't go on tour, a lot won't do pantomime. I think you should do everything.

Victor Spinetti

#68. Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#69. A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Karl Kraus

#70. People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place.

Richard Misrach

#71. Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death ... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.

Giada De Laurentiis

#72. Doing the same thing day in, day out. It's just so boring. I like to jump from different things.

Michelle Ryan

#73. I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

Joss Stone

#74. If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.

Barbara De Angelis

#75. There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Tim Robbins

#76. I just try to eat things in moderation and find exercise that I enjoy, because I'm not a gym person. I cannot go to the gym and run on the treadmill and do weights for two hours. It's the most boring thing in the world for me, so I found martial arts.

Daniella Alonso

#77. But if we never did the scary things in life we'd lead awfully boring lives

Belle Aurora

#78. While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest.

Jane Cleland

#79. Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

Dan Simmons

#80. Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

E. M. Forster

#81. If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really
to keep looking at the world in the right way.

John Cusack

#82. So many bands write about the same s - -. It gets real boring after a while. I want to keep it fresh and sign about things like the birth of my daughter, about seeing the world- things that aren't always said in metal.

Mitch Lucker

#83. There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit ...

Karen Karbo

#84. Laugh when good things happen. Laugh when bad things happen. Laugh when life is so plain boring that you can't find anything amusing about it beyond the fact that it's so utterly unamusing.

Brandon Sanderson

#85. Mockumentary formats are great for a couple of things. One of them is delivering the toughest part of any sitcom episode, what writers call "pipe" - the nuts and bolts of the story where you explain what's happening, the boring plot stuff.

Michael Schur

#86. I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring.

Janni Lee Simner

#87. Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

Douglas Coupland

#88. I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.

Andie MacDowell

#89. I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it's boring. People don't want to watch that - they want to watch things that are exciting and dangerous and sexy and have tension.

Carrie Preston

#90. Besides, the angels lived in heaven forever and that was a long time, so I imagined things got boring up there after a while. It was scary to think about living forever with nothing to do

William Moyers

#91. Everyone who lived here said those things: provincial, self-satisfied, boring. If you said that, it showed you recognized these qualities but did not partake of them yourself.

Margaret Atwood

#92. People yearn for change, they relish being part of a movement, and they talk about things that are remarkable, not boring.

Seth Godin

#93. The things you get excited for the fastest are the things that get boring the fastest. Anything that ever meant a damn took a while.

Meredith Gran

#94. What happened to us? We go parties now, and we've nothing to say to each other 'til we're fucked. And even then. We spend hours talking about parties from before, things that happened to us once, we spend life retelling life and it's pointless and boring.

Kate Tempest

#95. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.

P. J. O'Rourke

#96. I hate talking about myself, I find it such a boring topic. I'd much rather talk about other things.

Martin Henderson

#97. I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday ... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.

Chelsea Martin

#98. I found out and lost the only place I ever sort of regarded as home. Oh well. Best to stay in one's garden but Voltaire was a boring writer and sex is one of the greatest things there is.

Kathy Acker

#99. I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.

Rodney Brooks

#100. Good guys are boring. You need a little bad to keep things fun. And nice guys? Nice guys have something to hide.

Emma Chase