Ye winds ye unseen currents of the air, Softly ye played a few brief hours ago; Ye bore the murmuring bee; ye… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women… — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). — John Milton Copy Share Image
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer. — Delia Ephron Copy Share Image
We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs… — Sybil Thorndike Copy Share Image
Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about… — Jane Stanton Hitchcock 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
I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So… — William Barnes Rhodes Copy Share Image
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore. — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to… — Leonard Bernstein 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
