Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

Le secret d’ennuyer est celui de tout dire.(The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.)”(Sept Discours en Vers sur l’Homme, 1738)

In the end, single people either get boring, or they stay divorced.

I watch baseball on TV like my cat watches the window. Somebody open the blinds so we can see better!

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

Is it ok to sometimes be shy?Yes, of course. The point is,that being that way all the time and using it as an excuse to never be the opposite of shy,it’s not good. It’s not...

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.

I think privacy is important, and it’s important you don’t bore people with your own boring self.

If you catch me talking in my sleep, your conversation bored me.

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.

I may be boring, but that’s okay; I don’t want to hard-sell myself.

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...

I’m not good at talking. Can’t I just nod my way through a conversation? It’s better than nodding off.

I don’t want to be about the way I look – my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

I’d rather be weird than ordinary. Ordinary is so boring.

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them...

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they’re insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the...

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it’s boring. I think that’s what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive...

Sane is boring.

You can’t plan everything – if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

I’ve been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball.

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

Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.

I choose to write because it’s perfect for me. It’s an escape, a place I can go to hide. It’s a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It’s a journal, when the...

If you’re an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It’s boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon...

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

You know you’re not perfect and that’s good. Perfect is boring. You have a lot to offer. A lot more to experience and so many things to learn. There are more pages to fill up...

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn’t have mistakes, it’s nothing.

I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I’m the good Southern daughter. I’m not outrageous.

But I won’t bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won’t make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his...

John Wilkinson invented the horizontal boring machine, and what a boring machine it was! In fact, it’s so boring that I think I’ll go to sleep now.

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

You’ve got to stay focused without being boring – because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

… even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe boring isn’t the right word. What’s the word I’m wanting...

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what’s going on.

Karate’s a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were within its reach.

None of the characters I’ve played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn’t be acting.

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful,...

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

I don’t like American football. I think it’s boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It’s played on a diamond.