Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I love movies, of course. 'Terminator 3' and 'Bad Boys II' - lots of action. Sports movies, action movies, comedies - I'll… — Sergio Garcia Copy Share Image
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I like to make up songs. And it's my opinion that all these songs mean a lot to me, but that doesn't… — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
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
Oh, you’re going to die all right. All of you. And for what you’ve done to my brother you will suffer unimaginably!… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt,… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a… — Lisa Kirk Copy Share Image
I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with… — David Hockney 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 Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a… — Tayeb Salih Copy Share Image
Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion… — John Searle Copy Share Image
There live a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease Joe… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're… — Linda Woolverton Copy Share Image
Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore,… — Emilio Pucci Copy Share Image
You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. I'm not… — Paulette Goddard Copy Share Image
MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image