P. D. James Quotes

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

P. D. James

• Bored

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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
  • Actor
  • Look

• 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

• I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.

  

  Anne McCaffrey
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

  

  J. C. Macaulay
  • Good
  • Mistake
  • Prayer

• The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.

  

  Neal Boortz
  • House
  • Party

• Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

  

  Fabien Barthez
  • Small
  • Play
  • Sometimes

• Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Tongue
  • Eternal Love
  • No True

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

  

  P. D. James
  • Bored