Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever grow up. Don’t become a bore. Don’t ever let the Man get to you.” — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare. — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
You can get some work, some jobs that will bore you until you're dead. So you better look for something that's got… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore. — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, yeah. I don't sort of think, 'Oh, I need to do a comedy, I've done three… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right… — Celia Imrie Copy Share Image
I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like… — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
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… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
