Bores Quotes

• It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Successful
  • Photograph

• All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • People
  • Fake
  • Politician

• I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

  

  Walter E. Williams
  • Reason
  • Bores
  • Congressman

• Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.

  

  Eliza Leslie
  • Bores
  • Invitations

• Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Society
  • Bores
  • Horde

• And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • United States
  • Not Believe
  • Bores

• One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and more dissatisfied with yourself and the world in general. Then even that feeling wears off, and you don't feel anything anymore. You become completely indifferent to what goes on around you... You forget how to laugh and cry - you're cold inside and incapable of loving anything or anyone... There's no going back... The disease has a name. It's called deadly tedium.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Feel
  • Disease
  • Anything

• No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Bores

• They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Water
  • Consideration
  • Attempting

• I dont like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

  

  Judi Shekoni
  • Bores
  • Sticking

• I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Life
  • Want
  • Clean

• I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Love
  • Nature

• There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.

  

  Casey Abrams
  • Performances
  • Notes
  • Backbone

• The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Congratulations
  • Bores

• There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Husband
  • Bores
  • Exotic

• We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Men
  • Waste
  • Bores

• I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Knowing
  • Next
  • Strive

• Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Society
  • Feminist
  • Bores

• We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Christ
  • Sin
  • Forgiven

• You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • School
  • College

• Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Imagination
  • Imagine
  • Politician

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