I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom…

I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.

— Terry Pratchett

[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.

— Margaret Whiting

I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to…

— Haskell Wexler

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much…

— Herbert Spencer

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And…

— Tim Gunn

I'm going to be honest, I would love for Flava Flav to be president. It would bring a lot of excitement to the country.

— DJ Khaled

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

— Howard Snell

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And…

— Susanne Bier

“Life is difficult.”

— M. Scott Peck

What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and…

— Atul Gawande

Any trend that generates a lot of excitement encounters scepticism due to the bad experiences - internet and housing crashes - of the past…

— Cathie Wood

I've always bought CDs and even when I was young and at primary school I had a massive collection of CDs. I just like…

— Amy Macdonald

The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater…

— Nick Blaemire

Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

— Felicity Jones