School Boredom Quotes

#1. Uneasy lies the head that wears a Knighthood

Dean Cavanagh

#2. As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

Harper Lee

#3. He exhaled in disgust. "High school is boredom punctuated by humiliation.

Katie Kennedy

#4. After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.

Alice Dreger

#5. Maybe that was what grown-up life was really about. Doing what everyone else thought you should do.

Josh Lanyon

#6. In hindsight, I know that high school is a festering pit of boredom and hormones, not to be taken as seriously as it seemed while I was there. It is earthly purgatory before you enter the better parts of your life: you've got one foot in heaven and the other in hell.

Alida Nugent

#7. If you're lucky, afterwards I'll untie you and let you leave with us," he replied.

Stylo Fantome

#8. What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

Dillon Burroughs

#9. I think it suffices to say that Israel has the right to defend itself.

Mitt Romney

#10. Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.

Bill Hybels

#11. For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.

Tracy Morgan

#12. There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#13. The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

Paul Muldoon

#14. It smells like grade school - boredom, paste, Lysoled vomit. I

Kathryn Stockett

#15. Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard

Tyne O'Connell

#16. You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn't get found. It emerges.

Reid Hoffman

#17. AVERT DISASTER, in fact, would have been a perfect school motto - the purpose of the place, as far as Schwartz could tell, was to keep three thousand would-be maniacs sedated by boredom until a succession of birthdays transformed them into adults.

Chad Harbach

#18. Happiness is an illusion

ShinigamiGew

#19. There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.

Keith Allen

#20. Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

Daniel Goleman