No-limit hold'em- Hours of boredom followed by moments of…

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

— Pappy Boyington

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

— Erica Jong

“...the very, very old fae tended to go through an unhealthy stage of boredom that was often followed by a period of ‘goin’ doololly.”

— E.J. Stevens

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

— Daniel Goleman

. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare -…

— Wole Soyinka

Any time you have someone's first-hand account of the sheer terror that ISIS can provoke... that's powerful.

— Chuck Fleischmann

So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of…

— Betty Hill

One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific…

— Quentin Tarantino

“A firefighter’s job is hours of boredom, seconds of terror.”

— Kathryn Shay

“Ah, my old friend, anxiety-throwing itself into the blender with sheer terror and embarrassment.”

— Myra McEntire

“There's a moment of sheer terror when I discover Paul's apartment overlooks the park”

— Bret Easton Ellis

“And then when you wake up, there's a moment of sheer terror in your body. Every bit of softness leaves your muscles, and you…

— Josh Kilmer-Purcell

“It's beyond everything. Nothing at all that I know touches it." "For sheer terror?" I remember asking. He seemed to say it was not…

— Henry James

“Like many other Catholics, Esmond had a crust of Catholic complacency over a thin layer of doubt, which spanned a deep morass of sheer…

— Simon Brett

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

— Oscar Wilde