Quotes About Uninteresting

#1. For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

Alexei Sayle

#2. I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

Jeremy Piven

#3. It's interesting how interesting uninteresting people get after a few drinks.

Stuart Blythe

#4. Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

Jamie Wyeth

#5. This book is dedicated to the uncool, uncoordinated, unexceptional, uncharming, uninteresting, and especially the unashamed. To everyone from the Awkwards to the Zeroes, living as the proud oddballs they are. This book is dedicated to my people.

Drew Hayes

#6. The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Robert Gottlieb

#7. In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Brooks Atkinson

#8. When I made 'Terminator 3,' I learned something about directing actors to behave like robots. And one of the key things I learned is that if an actor tries to play a robot, he or she risks playing it mechanically in a way that makes the performance uninteresting.

Jonathan Mostow

#9. These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

James Van Allen

#10. The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

Gary Zukav

#12. I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Alan Rickman

#13. We wasted little time wondering how anyone, even Lizzie, could nurse for five years a smoldering, mounting, murderous hate for anyone as uninteresting as Abby Borden ... we did, however, attach grave importance to Lizzie's 'peculiar spells.

Victoria Lincoln

#14. Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

Thomas Koerfer

#15. There are no uninteresting people, only disinterested listeners!

Sean McPheat

#16. There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing about them is dull or uninteresting or unplugged.

Luci Swindoll

#17. Those of us in medicine don't help, for we often regard the patient on the downhill as uninteresting unless he or she has a discrete problem we can fix.

Atul Gawande

#18. It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public,

Solomon Northup

#19. It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

#20. You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

Diane Keaton

#22. The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

Piet Zwart

#23. Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting ... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

Adam Driver

#24. I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.

Justin Vernon

#25. He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Patrick Suskind

#26. If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

Marcel Duchamp

#27. It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out.
- Temeraire, on being inside an egg

Naomi Novik

#28. So we see that what looks like a dead, uninteresting thing - a glass of water with a cover, that has been sitting there for perhaps twenty years - really contains a dynamic and interesting phenomenon which is going on all the time. To

Richard Feynman

#29. The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations ... cannot be particularized without involving a detail too tedious and uninteresting to compensate for the instruction it might afford.

Alexander Hamilton

#30. The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.

Colin Meloy

#31. You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

#32. I find it difficult to relate to people who enjoy discussing the utterly uninteresting and unchangeable facts of life.

Zack Love

#33. There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

G.K. Chesterton

#34. Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Harry S. Truman

#35. One cost, for the lonely: If you want to be interesting, the one thing you shouldn't do is really focus on the fact that 'I want this person to like me.' That's going to make you very uninteresting. But the lonely, they just can't help but focus on that.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#36. You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#37. The most uninteresting thing in the world is watching narcissists fuck each other.

Jarett Kobek

#38. When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#39. I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.

Lily James

#40. Though Trish and her bad boy types weren't exactly Kindra's style, she had to agree that Violet went for quiet and uninteresting. Sort of like mild salsa. Why even bother? You'd be better off just biting a tomato.

Erin McCarthy

#41. All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

Bertrand Russell

#42. I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Teju Cole

#43. The most uninteresting thing for me is when somebody thinks too much about how they put themselves together.

Thom Browne

#44. [Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

Evan Esar

#45. No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#46. Life is complicated, but not uninteresting

Jerzy Neyman

#47. With a movie, it's probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.

Hideo Kojima

#48. It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of catharsis while our own (non-fictional) experiences and stories lead to something banal or completely uninteresting.

Sasa Stanisic

#49. What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

Ivan Turgenev

#50. There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.

Steve McQueen

#51. I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.

Sarah Dessen

#52. It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

F.H. Bradley

#53. This may sound like a copout, but character and plot are equally important to me. I don't think the reader can engage uninteresting, compelling characters. Similarly, even interesting characters can't salvage a plot that's boring or that's riddled with holes.

Ed Duncan

#54. People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

Martin Walser

#55. I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Donald Norman

#56. A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

Constance Hale

#57. The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

Trent Reznor

#58. The boys I'm acquainted with are vastly uninteresting. -Kaitlyn

John Green

#59. It helps omit uninteresting details, provides convenient building blocks (such as while and console.log), allows you to define your own building blocks (such as sum and range), and makes those blocks easy to compose.

Marijn Haverbeke

#60. It's amazing how I can just ramble on for hours, isn't it? And so unentertaining or uninteresting. But I can ramble on for hours. It's a sort of terrible gift, isn't it?

Graham Norton

#61. Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as a rule, hate literary conversation, and yet at the right moment, with all its powers of feeling, the mind in silence may feel what it owes to literature.

William Hurrell Mallock

#62. I don't know that it is possible to construct anything more atrociously hideous or uninteresting than a Base Camp. It consists, in military parlance, of nothing more than: -
Fields, grassless 1
Tents, bell 500

Bruce Bairnsfather

#63. Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy, the obscure clear; life assumes a charm and it's miseries are softened. If we knew the power of kindness. we should transform the world into a paradise.

Charles Wagner

#64. Sometimes I realize halfway through a story, I'm like, 'Why would anyone care about this? It's uninteresting.'

Kyle Kinane

#65. But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#66. Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

Kristen Stewart

#67. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#68. What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off.

Stephen Greenblatt

#69. Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Oscar Wilde

#70. I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so utterly uninteresting that I could faint. And that's when you know you're in love; the tedium isn't unbearable, it's lovely.

Lionel Shriver

#71. Boredom, like beauty, is in the mind of the beholder. 'There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject,' said Chesterton. 'The only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

George Sheehan

#72. Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Margaret Oliphant

#73. Atheism is unprovable, so uninteresting. However unlikely it is, we can never be certain that God once existed - and has now shot off to infinity, where no one can ever find him ... Like Gautama Buddha, I take no position on this subject.

Arthur C. Clarke

#74. A profound theme is of trifling importance if the characters knocked around by it are uninteresting, and brilliant technique is a nuisance if it pointlessly prevents us from seeing the characters and what they do.

John Gardner

#75. Oh, where is it, where did my past go, when I was young, happy and intelligent, when my dreams and thoughts had some grace, and the present and future were lit up with hope? Why is it, that when we've just started to live, we grow dull, gray, uninteresting, lazy, useless, with flattened-out souls?

Sarah Ruhl

#76. Four Unpardonable Sins of a Communicator: being unprepared, uncommitted, uninteresting, or uncomfortable.

John C. Maxwell

#77. If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#78. UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

Carl Sagan

#79. My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around.

Eugene Richards

#80. I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

Lesley Manville

#81. Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

C.S. Lewis

#82. For the Christian church ... to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting.

Cornelius Plantinga

#83. I hope I can never trust my wife. If I trust her it means I know her. If I know her it means I understand her. If I understand her it means I can control her, and if I can control her it would make her boring and uninteresting ... Dear god I hope I can never trust my wife ...

Ben Mitchell

#84. For Amy is the victim of today's common malaise - too much self analysis; while I, finding myself remarkably uninteresting, am only too pleased to observe others and the natural objects around me. Thus I am

Miss Read

#85. Hadn't been expecting a thank-you. I wasn't even sure why I'd done it. I supposed he was my favorite HARC officer, but that was a bit like having a favorite vegetable. They were all pretty uninteresting.

Amy Tintera

#86. Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Anne Lamott

#87. When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

Ian Fleming

#88. I don't believe that anyone who is a legitimately interesting person can be popular as a teenager," Mel went on. "Or ever, maybe. Popularity rewards the uninteresting.

Leila Sales

#89. You're remarkably uninteresting for a flying trollop.

K.J. Charles

#90. Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

Damian Lewis

#91. I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

L.M. Montgomery

#92. The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.

Alexander McCall Smith

#93. People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.

Eric Idle

#94. There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.

Mark Twain

#95. From the point of view of the criminal expert," said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#96. The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

Kevin J. Anderson

#97. Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Marlene Dietrich

#98. It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.

E. Nesbit

#99. Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

Robert Genn

#100. I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than the fact that I am right-handed. It's a fact of my biography, but it's uninteresting.

Eleanor Catton