Your Boring Quotes

#1. You're training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine

Elton John

#3. Here you complain about your boring life, yet when a talking cat drops into your lap, you seek to silence it!

K.M. Shea

#4. Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"
because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk

E. Lockhart

#5. He was the bad boy type all right. The type my mother warned me about. the type you have a good time with, then forget about as you go home to live your boring life, while he moves on to the next skirt ready to give him the time of day.

J.C. Reed

#6. Show me something."

"What would you like to see?"

"Anything. Dazzle me with your boring, practical Alben magic.

Kiersten White

#7. It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites
others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can.

SARK

#8. Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#9. In a platonic and boring fashion, is it all right if I share your fire until me clothes dry out? I have a feeling if I fall asleep damp I'll wake up with some horrid Victorian disease.

Caitlin Kittredge

#10. Actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

Stella Adler

#11. If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much into your next life. You don't bring much power.

Frederick Lenz

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

Tom Smothers

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. To me, video games aren't something as necessary as food or sleep, but they're just as important as delicious food, drinks, afternoon naps, walks, music, and sex (or masturbation). Not having them won't kill you, but without them, your life would be so boring you might as well be dead.

Hidetaka Suehiro

#16. What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'

David Cross

#17. If you find yourself stimulated in any way by your portfolio performance, then you are probably doing something very wrong. A superior portfolio strategy should be intrinsically boring.

William J. Bernstein

#18. If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored ... and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

Joe Perry

#19. I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.

Roberto Cavalli

#20. By the way, I'm not usually attracted to danger," I said. "Up until now I've led a pretty boring life."

"Boredom is good!" Dr. Rasman looked pleased. "Boredom is why God invented books. Are you still in your book club?

Julie Schumacher

#21. My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.

Roz Chast

#22. I think, in order to have or appreciate the very best, you have to go through the very worst. Living your life always looking to be on an even keel is safe, but it's boring.

S.E. Jakes

#23. 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

#24. Don't feel bad - if your iPod is full of music made by nice, well-adjusted people, it's probably also full of terrible, boring music.

Anonymous

#25. Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home.

Joseph Pilates

#26. To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

Chuck Palahniuk

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Boring' can be a lot of fun. Especially if it's on your own terms.

Hugh MacLeod

#30. I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.

Richard Jeni

#31. I love you but you were a boring mother fucker until Mister-Pussy-Eating-Like-a-Boss, Hot-as-Hell, Sex-on-a-Stick came into your life.

Kathryn Perez

#32. Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people.

C. JoyBell C.

#33. There's no point in fighting for a woman that is rude and boring, just because she's hot. Such woman shortens your lifespan.

Daniel Marques

#34. Trust is nothing when you have it. It's bread and milk. Basic. There's no glamour, no emotion, no drama - you just trust and that's it. Trusting someone is boring. It's a non-event. But take it away - try living without trust and suddenly your relationship is plunged into a living hellhole.

Kate Kerrigan

#35. 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

#36. your content is boring then people are not going to read it and engage with you. If

Andy Headworth

#37. 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

#38. Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.

Samuel R. Delany

#39. I used to be normal. Then, I met you."
"Pfft. There you go, blaming me for your mental hang-ups again," she said. "Besides, normal is boring."
"Yeah. You've shown me that, too.

Kelli Jean

#40. Your life may be really boring in reality, but online you're a competitive superhero.

Paul Gallant

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.

Nancy Kress

#44. I think yoga has given me better posture. People don't realise how strong it makes you. You have to use your body weight to hold yourself. As you get older, you're supposed to lift weights, but I find that kind of boring. Yoga is lifting my own body.

Andie MacDowell

#45. Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

Christian Bale

#46. I hate water. It's so boring. And it takes up so much room in your stomach.

J.T. Geissinger

#47. You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

Mickey Rourke

#48. Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life.

Doug Stanhope

#49. I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial

#50. I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Alison Gopnik

#51. If you feel your life is boring, go visit your relatives in the hospital or prison.

Toba Beta

#52. You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.

Kyle Minor

#53. You're a mean old man, Your Grace."
"And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.

Brandon Sanderson

#54. Laughter aids the digestion. You can eat a huge stew with your schoolmates and digest it with no bother at all, whereas you can get indigestion eating a leaf of lettuce in boring company.

Maurice Messegue

#55. Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you ... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.

Donald O'Connor

#56. There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!

Helen McCrory

#57. 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

#58. If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

Gustav Mahler

#59. Dear God, what's it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring.

Sherlock

#60. But why?" Vimbai whispered, overwhelmed with the weight of accumulated disbelief. "What is happening to us?"
"Who knows?" Maya shrugged. "Who cares? Enjoy it while you can, why don't you? There will be tons of boring shit in your life, okay? I promise.

Ekaterina Sedia

#61. If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.

Isabel Gillies

#62. No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about ... One thing's for sure - no one but you can be the hero of your story.

Jerry Spinelli

#63. Stick on your originality, yes I know few people will call you a boring person but millions will fall in love with you because of your authenticity.

Euginia Herlihy

#64. 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

#65. Dante: Want me to get your name inked on me? How about on my arm?
Jamie: No. That's boring.
Dante: How about over my heart then?
Jamie: No. That's corny.
Dante: Is not.
Jamie: Is too.
Dante: We'll discuss it later.

Suzanne Wrightt

#66. You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror ... But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

John Irving

#67. Turn your mobile phone off for a few hours each day. Having nothing to do while you're waiting for a bus can be boring, but it's only when you're bored that the scary thoughts come to the surface. Use a dumb phone on the weekends to prevent yourself from checking your messages.

Julien Smith

#68. And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

Norman MacCaig

#69. You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent ... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.

Meryl Streep

#70. 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

#71. The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

Wayne Dyer

#72. When life is boring, have a funky dance and watch yourself dancing after closing your eyes.

Debasish Mridha

#73. Standup is a form of therapy. It is OK to tell problems to your audience as long as you are being honest and not boring them. I tell them that I am saving $75 an hour when I talk to them instead of a therapist.

Bill Engvall

#74. Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus
Be dull and boring and omnipresent
Criticize things you don't know about
Be oblong and have your knees removed

Steve Martin

#75. You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?

Christopher Paolini

#76. Your insecurities are what makes you different and who you are. If we all were the same, it'd be boring.

Jesy Nelson

#77. You're boring me, M'Ordant. Go away." V'Aidan
"You can't be bored." M'Ordant
"And a good thing, too, since I'd no doubt perish from it while in your company." V'Aidan

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#78. The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is.

Demetri Martin

#79. You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself ... so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.

Fritz Scholder

#80. Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

Shonda Rhimes

#81. The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past.

Chuck Palahniuk

#82. Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

Lemony Snicket

#83. When you become a parent, that's a whole new level of life intruding. Nobody tells you how boring and time-sucking it's going to be! Or how the responsibility feels like an airbag going off in your life.

Maria Semple

#84. As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

Justin Chon

#85. Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.

Darren Hardy

#86. Mac saved me. He took me in, he loved me, he kept me safe. And he wasn't boring. And to be perfectly honest, we were taking a lot of drugs, and it's difficult to get bored when you're off your face all the time. I was happy.

Paula Hawkins

#87. Forget the boring old dictum "write about what you know." Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.

Rose Tremain

#88. Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.

Cassandra Clare

#89. Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.

M.J. Rose

#90. I think women often have problems with self-belief, which sounds a bit boring, but they do - and I think when women are bringing up children, it can be chronic, because you have all these other calls on your time.

Nell Leyshon

#91. The last thing the world needs is another boring person or another boring brand, so embrace all the things that make you different. Alter your clothes all you want, but don't you dare alter your inner freak - she's got your back as much as I do.

Sophia Amoruso

#92. A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

Edgar Degas

#93. The longest walk of your life does not happen when you walk great distances lonely but it happens when you walk very shortly with the boring people!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#94. Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

Bob Shacochis

#95. The spirit of fun keeps your dating life interesting and not boring.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#96. The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.

Tom Peters

#97. The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

Og Mandino

#98. I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

Sara Paretsky

#99. With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

Philip Roth

#100. There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.

Kevin Sampsell