Boring Quote by Abbie Hoffman

“And it's beyond my energy to explain why I don't think that four-letter word that everyone's so obsessed over and that gets everyone into…

— Kendare Blake

“Awful things, children. Needy, self-centered tyrants, the boys all teeth and firsts, the girls all claws and spit. Gathering into sniveling packs and sniffing…

— Steven Erikson

The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.

— Jemaine Clement

“When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this…

— Rudyard Kipling

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty,…

— Dorothy Parker

“These were times when the sheer splendour of language and the boundless potential of the human imagination to transcend the inexorable, horrendous dullness of…

— M.J. Nicholls

Fewer people than you might think seem to have truly enjoyed their formative education and, for those who did not, one theme in particular…

— Dawn Foster

Many writers were picked on as children. Why? Because they were weird from the get-go. They were often to be found at the back…

— Heather O'Neill

“When a child says, “Mr. Roberson, how do you spell this word? What does that word mean?” I’ll look tortured. “Oh,” I’ll exclaim, hand…

— Doug Robertson

“They had wandered in a defeated continent of the vulgar world, where vulgarity had lost its power and its pride, and had to repeat…

— Rebecca West

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word…

— Ray Bradbury

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not…

— Lois Lowry