He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold. — Katharine Gun Copy Share Image
“Modern travel would be totally delightful if only I could learn to enjoy boredom, discomfort, and fatigue.” — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“This is so boring. I might as well be listening to Genesis." -- Rik Mayall, The Young Ones” — Maureen A. Miller Copy Share Image
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation. — George Raveling Copy Share Image
“Successful people who don't know what to do with their recent success get quickly bored with it.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“ They have the diseases of the leisure class, like bulimia and attention deficit disorder, and for some reason, with all their… — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
As a director you have to live and breathe that one story for 8 months completely. I like variety, if I write… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks,… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
“...childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I know Stephen King is uncompromising on the idea that writers should practise their craft every single day, and it clearly works… — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
“If Z had only known in his perfectly lovely two rooms in Paris what he'd come to know in his single 6x8… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom... — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image