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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.
History is the same thing over and over again.
If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.
If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.
If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
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.
I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.
Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.
Oh dear," said Jace..."I hope that wasn't anything important." "It was a sleeping potion," she said angrily, toeing the vial with the tip of a sneaker. "And now it's gone." "If only Simon were here. He could bore you to sleep.
I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.
Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand, engages you, enthralls and satisfies you, it contributes to the meaning of your life
Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.
I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."
The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.