Quotes About Boring

#1. I can't maintain the body of a 16-year-old anymore. That's just a really boring life to me. You really just cannot do anything fun, ever.

Erin Heatherton

#2. Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

Idries Shah

#3. 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

#4. Safe isn't always better than sorry.
Sometimes you need sorry to appreciate the
safe. And sometimes safe is just plain boring.

Anna Banks

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

Anonymous

#6. Fine. I'm tame. And boring. I like reading. And the last time I went to a party, I left early because Outlander was on.

Rachel Van Dyken

#7. Parents should be completely dull and ordinary and predictable. You want their relationship to be stable and incredibly boring, as though you would kill yourself if you had to be in that marriage. Neither

Meg Wolitzer

#8. You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

Jon Favreau

#9. Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.

Roman Polanski

#10. The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

Helen Fisher

#11. 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

#12. It's only the boring who are bored.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. I hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it's less boring than running. I do find that diet is key. I eat lots of lean protein, no soda, no fast food or fried foods, and a lot of water. But I love food and often cook.

Mike Colter

#14. Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

Jimmy Iovine

#15. My problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks ... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ... they at least make my art more interesting

Hiroko Sakai

#16. There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

Sue Townsend

#17. I could take nice and boring with you right now." He growled low and ran his lips across my neck. "Long, boring... and slow.

Amanda Carlson

#18. 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

#19. I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

Kate Winslet

#20. Guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

Robin Morgan

#21. People don't analyze Britney Spears' lyrics 'cause they're so obvious, you know? And her image is so kind of blah and mainstream that who really wants to read between the lines, because it's all so out there in front of you and boring and white bread.

Juliana Hatfield

#22. I'd rather be weird than ordinary. Ordinary is so boring.

Noah Willoughby

#23. 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

#24. I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

Claudia Gray

#25. I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with watching what I eat. I

Mindy Kaling

#26. If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.

Quentin Tarantino

#27. I was a dedicated, boring student. The last thing I wanted was to be a comedienne.

Anne Meara

#28. The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions.

Josephine Decker

#29. Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#30. A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#31. The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Peter Kreeft

#32. Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.

Erin Heatherton

#33. All I think about now is her amazing body wrapped around mine and broken furniture. And race car hoods and bearing alignment, assembly lubes and aligns boring. God honey, the affect you have on me is ... unbelievable.

Shey Stahl

#34. I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

Sean Connery

#35. And yet, if we were to inject truth serum into the communion wine in our churches, I think we might find that many of us dread life in the kingdom of God, not because we find it terrifying but because we find it boring.

Russell D. Moore

#36. If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.

Neal McDonough

#37. If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

Emma Roberts

#38. any life dissected too closely was boring and could only make you fall asleep.

Kathleen Collins

#39. At a distance, they looked just boring enough to be important.

Craig Schaefer

#40. In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.

Zainab Salbi

#41. Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.

Seneca.

#42. I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

Manolo Blahnik

#43. Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

Clay Shirky

#44. I haven't had the most thrilling lifestyle. I was a pretty good dresser, but I would have a pretty boring 'Behind the Music.'

Patti Smith

#45. But honestly, I don't really want to get to know most people anyway. Most people are boring assholes. Secretly I am better than everyone.

Ainslie Hogarth

#46. [American Psycho] is throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless except as a way of earning its author some money and notoriety.

Andrew Motion

#47. I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.

Chad Harbach

#48. Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.

T.C. Boyle

#49. I don't think I'm being harassed by little green stalkers. I don't know what's really going on, but I'd rather try to eliminate all rational excuses before blaming intergalactic monkeys from the fourth dimension who are somehow interested in this really boring town.

Thomm Quackenbush

#50. When I'm sitting at home in the off season and I don't have anything to do, I watch tennis on my computer. It's kind of boring. It's something to do.

Sloane Stephens

#51. Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#52. As much as everyone says that Superman is good, a lot of other people might say that that's why they find him boring ... A lot of Batman fans might say that.

Henry Cavill

#53. Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

Morrissey

#54. A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. People are only in danger of coming across as such when they either fail to understand their deeper selves or don't dare or know how to communicate them to others.

Alain De Botton

#55. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

Jon Ronson

#56. To see a tree in Winter is to see it for what it really is. A Winter tree is an object so intricate and so perplexing that if it hadn't already; been decided that Winter trees were plain and boring, we would be spending hours pondering them, staring at them in astonishment.

Vivian Swift

#57. My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

Tyne Daly

#58. I want people to have a good time. It's boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

Lykke Li

#59. Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

Josh Homme

#60. The lack of conflict is precisely the cause of one of the biggest problems that meetings have: they are boring

Patrick Lencioni

#61. I love exercise, but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates, and taking dance lessons.

Twiggy

#62. It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring.

Hanif Kureishi

#63. Happy Couples are boring.

Jay Bell

#64. None of what's become of me was Seattle's fault. Well, it might be Seattle's fault. The people are pretty boring. But let's withhold final judgment until I start being more of an artist and less of a menace.

Maria Semple

#65. It was better than floods of misery that a son of her flesh had killed the sons of other mothers. That burned in her heart like the pain which flared in the arthritis of her knees. Pain was a boring conversationalist who never stopped, just found new topics. Bess

Norman Mailer

#66. Success would be
a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with
a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No,
success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning

Chris Murray

#67. Perfection is overrated, boring. It's the imperfections--the vulnerabilities, the weaknesses, the human elements--that make us who we are, that make us real, beautiful . . . necessary.

Guy Harrison

#68. I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

Katherine Heigl

#69. Life is so boring when there is nothing much to love.

Debasish Mridha

#70. Normal is boring and safe. So, deviate from the norm because the greatest advances in humankind's history have come from people embracing their inner A. B. Normal.

Karl Pippart III

#71. You must have a definite purpose of life and a deep desire to achieve it. Without purpose, life is boring.

Debasish Mridha

#72. I'm learning a lot about how to be one of the 'good' actors. You'd hope that it's natural to be a good person, and kind, but I'm learning how to deal with long, sometimes boring days.

Lily James

#73. Being grown-up is boring. Besides, I don't get jazz.

Patrick Star

#74. Only boring people are bored.

Katherine Neville

#75. Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

Ved Mehta

#76. I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it's for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.

Jack Black

#77. The word 'snooze fest' comes to mind when talking about Hopkins' fighting style, that's what a lot of people say. He's a boring fighter.

Tavoris Cloud

#78. It was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work.

Peter Straub

#79. 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

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

Will Self

#81. You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

Adam Lambert

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

Roger Scruton

#83. Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it ... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

Jason Reitman

#84. I squirmed in my hiding spot. Do something, people," I urged. Say something. The silence dragged on. I imagined my first report to Maris. "We have underestimated our enemy. They are lethal. We are in serious danger of the Hancocks boring us to death. Abort, abort, abort.

Anne Greenwood Brown

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

Alanea Alder

#86. She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

T.H. White

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

Karen Hawkins

#88. That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.

George Harrison

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

Michio Kaku

#92. 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

#93. When you start using test audiences, it becomes more scientific than it is about the work itself, and that's boring.

Amanda Seyfried

#94. I found that Steve's passion for wildlife and willingness to lay his life on the line so exciting. What you have in our academic arena is a lot of people who are brilliant at what they do-and boring as the day is long.

Terri Irwin

#95. 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

#96. Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

Estelle

#97. 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

#98. I don't ever want to feel like my whole life is laid out before me and I know exactly what's gonna happen. That would be so boring.

Rose McIver

#99. Beauty is, in some ways, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages, nevertheless a beautiful object must always follow certain rules ... Ugliness is unpredictable and offers an infinite range of possibilities. Beauty is finite. Ugliness is infinite, like God.

Umberto Eco

#100. And anyway, who defines "real life"? Who says "real life" is property ladders and hideous pearl earrings? "Shit-boring tedious life," more like.

Sophie Kinsella