Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love! — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
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
That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing… — Hildegard of Bingen 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
Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down… — Ayn Rand 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
I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death. — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees. — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
