Wallace and Gromit’s contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent – especially children. If they’re bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic...

I am so exhausted and bored of my life. I should try something extreme, it must promise a lot of fear and pain but end with eternal silence, like suicide.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they’d get bored in a day.

I’d actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he’s kept himself from being bored.

The world is drowning in weirdness and lies……and here we are, so used to it that we’re actually bored!

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I’d be bored, and I would call him. He’d interview me.

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

Sit there and look pretty.

When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, ‘Do a blog. It’s the hip thing to do for male models.’

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer...

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That’s just so not me.

Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me.

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I’m extremely bored with parties.

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don’t want to ever be that.

When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!

How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going...

I don’t want to learn in a classroom anymore. I want to travel and talk to people and learn that way. I want to learn as I go,gathering knowledge and not being rigorously tested on...

Once you live in New York, you can’t live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It’s so bourgeois. I get so bored.

For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child’s boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense, blanketing malaise. It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be...

Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. “You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We’re too powerful, and...