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For those who are bored with life,
the path to happiness almost always comes
through service to the less-fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some
work you believe in with all your heart,
live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness
that you had thought could never be yours.
- Dale Carnegie
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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every
morning with a burning desire to do things -
you don't have enough goals.
- Lou Holtz
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh
We don't know all the answers.
If we knew all the answers we'd be bored,
wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching,
trying to get more knowledge.
- Jack LaLanne
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored,
that is the question.
- Gertrude Stein
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is
shocked by the unexpected;
the eye,
on the other hand, tends to be impatient,
craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
- W. H. Auden
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
- Jean de la Bruyere
I get bored very easily, ...
I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive
if I'm repeating something I'm good at.
So I'm always looking for new challenges.
- Jewel
There is a vast world of work out there in this country,
where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone -
many of whom are bored out of their minds.
All day long.
- Richard Nelson Bolles
Because Larry, by then, was a drummer,
who would sort of get bored and tired,
and rather stand up and blow kisses to people.
So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.
- Neil Innes
I got bored with the old way - it came too easy.
I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key,
and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.
- Don Ellis
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things,
and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
- Emily Carr
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed,
but never bored.
- Catherine Deneuve
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there -
and I love those.
But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
- Zoe Saldana
I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored.
What could be better than that?
- Richard Marx
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune,
and willing avoids the sight of distress.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored.
I feel I have lived long enough.
I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool.
Good luck.
- George Sanders
We can be bought, but we can't be bored.
- Lynn Fontanne
I have never been bored an hour in my life.
I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous
thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
- William Allen White
Luckily, I'm doing other things besides just modeling,
because frankly, I'm a little bored with it.
- Rebecca Romijn
So I am getting a little bored with defining one type
of film as American and the other European or from
somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
- Wim Wenders
I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.
- Darrell Royal
I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews.
Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
- Roger Ebert
Rock became an incredible commercial success,
people just became bored with serious music,
and it was forgotten.
- Henry Flynt
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
- Peter De Vries
Follow me around.
I don't care.
If anybody wants to put a tail on me,
go ahead.
They'd be very bored.
- Gary Hart
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him,
insists on tormenting generations to come.
- Baron de Montesquieu
I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up.
I see kids everywhere who are totally bored.
I've never been bored a day in my life.
- Jodie Foster
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is
a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune;
but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
- Nicolas de Chamfort
You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work.
As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't
enjoy doing period clothes.
- Boris Vallejo
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting
out of cars and walking into buildings,
getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.
- Dick Wolf
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot,
are cruel.
- Renata Adler
I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily.
I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.
- Courteney Cox
I get bored doing one thing only.
I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different
artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.
- Bill Mumy
That was the beginning of modern acting for me.
You don't have to tell a camera everything.
It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
- Stephen Rea
I know many books which have bored their readers,
but I know of none which has done real evil.
- Voltaire
Basically, I hate conformity.
I hate people telling me what to do.
It makes me want to smash things.
So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored,
I could throw up!
- Wendy O. Williams
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write.
I would get quite bored carrying it out.
- Michael Ondaatje
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it,
I'm bored by it.
- Fiona Shaw
You get ideas from daydreaming.
You get ideas from being bored.
You get ideas all the time.
The only difference between writers and other people
is we notice when we're doing it.
- Neil Gaiman
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing
men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
- Alison Bechdel
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction -
by skipping the parts that bored me.
- Jonathan Lethem
Never chain your dogs together with sausages.
One must accustom one's self to be bored.
- John Berger
We always see the innocent victims in the stories,
and I am a little bored with that.
I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
- Bill Williams
I hate getting bored.
- Edward Hall
To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor.
It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
- Catherine Deneuve
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with
actors talking about themselves.
- Alan Rickman
Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change,
you're bored.
It's the same with fashion, you know.
And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
- Bill Blass
For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general...
just bored with it.
- Les Claypool
I'm such a chameleon.
I never get bored.
- Natalie Imbruglia
It's street theater.
You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.
- Jason Statham
I'm bored with that line.
I never use it anymore.
My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."
- Andy Warhol
I never did pal around with actresses.
Their talk usually bored me to tears.
- Bette Davis
You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
- Cameron Diaz
Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football,
fighting and Muhammad Ali.
Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
- Oliver Reed
You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are.
It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap
thrill and being really stupid -
a dangerous combination.
- Mike Judge
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
- Eric Hoffer
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
- Nancy Astor
Good-bye.
I am leaving because I am bored.
- George Sanders
I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan,
otherwise I get very, very bored.
- Trisha Goddard
I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.
- Glenn Close
If I drive myself to the brink of my ability,
then I don't get stale or bored.
- Dean Koontz
I don't know why I started writing.
I don't know why anybody does it.
Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
- Cormac McCarthy
This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work,
but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where
I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.
- David Eddings
People are worms, and even the God who created them
is immensely bored with their antics.
- Ama Ata Aidoo
As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits.
You shouldn't have too much of good things,
so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.
- Compay Segundo
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions
of people who formerly snubbed you.
- Mary Wilson Little
Idle people are often bored and bored people,
unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great
preoccupations in our time.
- Renata Adler
You get bored if you do the same thing too much.
- Shawn Ashmore
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