Anatomy Quote by B. J. Chute

“Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank.”

— A.A. Patawaran

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you…

— Erich Fromm

If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will…

— Emilio Pucci

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're…

— David Mamet

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

— Gail Carson Levine

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice,…

— Georges Bernanos

When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at…

— Francois Fenelon

I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would…

— Johnny Carson

I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting…

— John Lennon

We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true…

— Brenda Ueland

Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other…

— Henryk Skolimowski