P. D. James Quotes

Whatever else I am now, I'm never bored.

P. D. James

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• I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Never
  • Lonely
  • Bored

• I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Bored

• If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

  

  Earl King
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Serious

• Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Stress
  • Meditation

• My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Bored
  • motivation
  • Just

• You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Dying
  • Bored

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Eye
  • Look
  • Actor

• I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Up
  • Bored
  • Three

• It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • More
  • Bored

• When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Know
  • Rest
  • Learn

• If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Mind
  • Daily
  • Bored

• One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Sometimes
  • Bored

• When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Feel
  • Same
  • Lonely

• Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Me
  • Never
  • Bored

• After we did the last Allman Brothers Band show, my wife and I just packed up and went to France for pretty much all of 2015, and I just got bored; I got the itch. I wanna play.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Wife

• Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

  

  Dorothy Leigh Sayers
  • Death
  • Single

• Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Great
  • Revolution

• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Different
  • Man

• One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Dead

• Whatever else I am now, I'm never bored.

  

  P. D. James
  • Bored