Bored Quote by Augusten Burroughs

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was…

— James Dyson

I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to…

— Grandmaster Flash

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it.…

— Doug E. Fresh

But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves without a…

— Maureen Johnson

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

— Cynthia Kenyon

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots.

— Reggie Watts

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my…

— Vin Diesel

I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.

— Drew Barrymore

When I was 10 there wasnt trampolines and cartoon charaters, I never went to Chuck E Cheese! My mom said ' you wanna see…

— George Lopez

In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe…

— Marie Curie

And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home,…

— Stone Gossard

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.

— Marion Cotillard