If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of… — Douglas V. Steere Copy Share Image
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me. — Babe Paley Copy Share Image
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders,… — G.M.B. Akash Copy Share Image
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician… — Chuck Israels 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
The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my… — William Blake Copy Share Image
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury… — Sasha Alexander 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
I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction. — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Variety is important when it comes to exercise. I don't do anything that bores me to tears. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image