We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you." — Emily Post 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
What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. — Doris Lessing 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
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
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Tony Bennett said to me, "Wow, your talent is amazing." Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
