We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody. — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They… — Anonymous 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
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty… — Pope Leo XII Copy Share Image
~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed… — William Penn Copy Share Image
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Sometimes when my fans come up to me, they think it's going to be entertaining, like I'm going to tell jokes or… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads, I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt. LAPD, the nurse asked… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No. — Stephanie Miller Copy Share Image
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore. — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature, — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.” — Lord Byron Copy Share Image