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
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children,… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a… — Anneli Rufus Copy Share Image
It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it… — Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere Copy Share Image
Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe.… — Anna Magnani 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
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. — Geoffrey Beene Copy Share Image
In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to… — John Updike Copy Share Image
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