A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“...the English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either… — john stuart mill Copy Share Image
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him. — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance… — Martin Nolan Copy Share Image
The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief… — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk… — Randy Jackson Copy Share Image
... bear with him as Our Lord bore with His disciples, who gave Him good reason to complain - at least, some… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs.… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from… — Origen Copy Share Image
Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
So much of what I am doing in my fiction is just trying to get into interesting places in terms of language… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning,… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that… — Michelle Paver Copy Share Image
People tend to call me names that I can't repeat on basic cable. I will give you a hint. They rhyme with… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say,… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is… — Emilio Pucci 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
Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on… — Ann Zwinger 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
If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook… — Karen Black Copy Share Image