Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a… — James Mangold Copy Share Image
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our… — William Golding Copy Share Image
O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over… — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being "cool." Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little… — Maurice Thompson Copy Share Image
If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. — Burton Raffel Copy Share Image
Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
You cannot bore people into buying your product - you can only interest them in buying it. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play,… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story:… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
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