Quotes About Boring Time

#1. I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

Thomas Peterffy

#2. The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.

Roy Andries De Groot

#3. Each time I tell myself you have reached the summit of your strangeness, you find a way to climb still higher." "Look at it this way: being married to me will never be boring.

Seanan McGuire

#4. As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

Reynolds Price

#5. If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

Amy Seimetz

#6. I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring ...

Diana Vreeland

#7. 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

#8. I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

Mandy Moore

#9. 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

#10. Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

Linn Ullmann

#11. Beauty can be quite boring, especially if you're talking about beauty that doesn't last. And what lasts is exactly the thing that maybe wasn't pretty at first. It comes over time to be beautiful or interesting or exciting.

Carine Roitfeld

#12. I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

Mick Jagger

#13. I had a lot of time before I actually got my break so to speak. I was building websites for other actors. I worked in a grocery store back in the little village where I grew up but I found it mind-numbingly boring.

Jeremy Irvine

#14. Music? Music is life! It's physical emotion - you can touch it! It's neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it's boring? You don't have time for it?

Isaac Marion

#15. The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Mark Zuckerberg

#16. People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

Barbara Bush

#17. It is of no concern. I don't mind that I am not universally adored. If I wanted everyone to like me, I'd have to be kind and charming and bland and boring all the time, and what would be the fun in that?

Julia Quinn

#18. 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

#19. Some people find life boring, there's too much time. Few find Life so exciting that there's no time at all and Life just zooms by.-RVM

R.v.m.

#20. Pampering your down-turned lips kills time when you are out on a date with some creep boring you to death. You can go to the loo, pull out your make-up bag and fantasize about all the people you would prefer to be with: Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, Eddie Redmayne, Cameron Diaz.

Chloe Thurlow

#21. Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.

Rio Ferdinand

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

Zooey Deschanel

#25. A lot of mainstream photographers seem not to think about what they're doing or feel any responsibility toward anything. By the time they're done, the models don't have any trace of themselves left. This thing about looking young with no wrinkles or expression is all so boring, really.

Peter Lindbergh

#26. 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

#27. It [Dr Phil] was great. We had such a good time. Never a dull moment on set, considering the 18 kids. It never got boring.

Miranda Cosgrove

#28. I spent some time in France, visited Egypt and Mexico City. I hung out, biked around, planted some tomatoes. I did everything except wake up in a new town everyday. It was really boring. It's just life.

Feist

#29. It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.

Kerry King

#30. 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

#31. I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.

Andy Warhol

#32. I can see that the tennis for the fans could be a bit boring, and these days you have these new modern things which you can do, and you have a lot of time, because you just play a match, and practise, and many times in between you can bring many things to the fans.

Tomas Berdych

#33. Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

Orson Welles

#34. Sorry, investing was pretty boring and I really missed being part of building something. I felt like I was always standing on the sidelines, so Zappos ... really liked the people there and got involved full-time and I've been full-time ever since.

Tony Hsieh

#35. Problems don't always get fixed. Lots of the time things are boring or dumb for no good reason. Or even terrible. And you can't do anything about it. That's life.

Laurel Snyder

#36. Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.

Regina Brett

#37. If she were human, I'd judge her to be in her mid-forties. That didn't sit in a negative column with her, though, because she gave off a smoldering, ripe sensuality that made youth look like a boring waste of time.

Jeaniene Frost

#38. If you're the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you're that kind of person, you'll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#39. Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

Anthony Bourdain

#40. The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.

Viktoria Modesta

#41. You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

Emily Mortimer

#42. To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

Natalia Makarova

#43. I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

Tom Baker

#44. My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.

Zach Johnson

#45. One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.

Suzy Kassem

#46. Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

Orson Scott Card

#47. 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

#48. It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

Marion Bartoli

#49. Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

Douglas Coupland

#50. When brands talk about themselves in real time, it's just boring faster.

Jay Baer

#51. I stared at them. 'Every time what?' I said, as Nathan put the money into Will's hand.
'He said you'd be reading a book. I said you'd be watching telly. He always wins.'
My sandwich stilled at my lips. 'Always?
You've been betting on how boring my life is?

Jojo Moyes

#52. If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.

Tom Smothers

#53. 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

#54. Your pony, he said as he stomped toward me. "I'm the farrier who is here to fix your pony."
"I thought you were a Hells Angel," I said.
"I used to be," he replied. "But fighting all the time and being really drunk and nasty got boring. So now I just take care of animals.

Jack Gantos

#55. Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what you're going to say next.

Douglas Adams

#56. 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

#57. Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

Jim Butcher

#58. I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.

Ty Segall

#59. 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

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

Wladimir Klitschko

#61. I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

Nathan Fillion

#62. Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.

Jack Gardner

#63. To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour.

Laurent Brancowitz

#64. Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

Ann Brashares

#65. 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

#66. About strip clubs and athletes. The best way I can explain why a lot of players end up there is because it's one of the safest places a high-profile person can spend time in a boring city.

Shaquille O'Neal

#67. I'm a pretty boring person. I have a dog that I love, and friends that I love, and a family that I love. I'm just trying to spend as much time with them as I can.

Anne Hathaway

#68. 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

#69. Existence is so reactive. All ducking and diving. There is no time for strategy. Still, i shouldn't grumble, I s'pose. I could be dead and that would be really boring.

Jamie Delano

#70. As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

Stephen King

#71. I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

William Eggleston

#72. My job is never boring. It's always new, exciting, and challenging, and I get a rush every time I go to work. I'm the luckiest person on the planet to be able to do what I love for a living.

Jewel Staite

#73. All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

Joseph Conrad

#74. It's hard having kids because it's boring ... It's just being with them on the floor while they be children. They read Clifford the Big Red Dog to you at a rate of 50 minutes a page, and you have to sit there and be horribly proud and bored at the same time.

Louis C.K.

#75. It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it.

Colson Whitehead

#76. I have an incredible talent for tripping everywhere. And I find that rather boring. Tripping and walking out of my shoes; I do it all the time when I am out at work. I'm a bit clumsy.

Mette-Marit, Crown Princess Of Norway

#77. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Doris Lessing

#78. Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

Roger Scruton

#79. 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

#80. Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

Rick Santorum

#81. You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

Chris Cuomo

#82. However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or
complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't
this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will
never even be offered life in the first place?

Richard Dawkins

#83. I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Edward Gorey

#84. Allowing the computer to do one thing is only boring if you don't use the time that the computer saves you to do something else.

Richie Hawtin

#85. Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core.

Irving Penn

#86. I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

Halsey

#87. Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of ... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by, Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye.

Bruce Springsteen

#88. '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

#89. Margaret," she told me time and again, "you may be anything you wish, so long as you're never boring.

Karen Hawkins

#90. 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

#91. If our perfect Lord is gracious enough to take our worst, and ugliest, our most boring, our least successful, and forgive them, burying them in the depths of the sea, then it's high time we give each other a break.

Charles R. Swindoll

#92. Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest.

John Kennedy Toole

#93. I enjoy spending time with my family. And when my family's not around, when I'm on the road, a lot of sleep. I get my rest. I understand how important my job is and how important rest is to that job. I'm pretty boring.

Mark Teixeira

#94. For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. I felt I wasn't the best person to bring them up. I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother.

Doris Lessing

#95. 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

#96. With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive
or even boring.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#97. This papaya tastes boring. I guess I normally like papaya. But this one is sort of boring all the way through. Like eating water. Boring water. I wonder when it will be sun time. Maybe I should try a different papaya after this one. But what if the next papaya is boring, too?

Tui T. Sutherland

#98. 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

#99. There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.

Anthony Burgess

#100. If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you'll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring.

Auliq Ice