Bore Quotes

407 quotes by 357 authors

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time. — Sheila Heti
It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or… — J D Salinger
Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder. — Cassandra Clare
~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't… — Uma Thurman
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear… — Vita Sackville-West
Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they… — Bill Murray
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways. — Johnnetta B. Cole
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. — Frank Moore Colby
More is more and less is a bore. — Iris Apfel
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert. — Leonard Susskind
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. — Ben Okri
The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. — P.J. O'Rourke
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and,… — Nelson Mandela
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs. — Ann Voskamp
I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry… — Kary Mullis
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just… — Joe Strummer
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have… — Laurie Graham
I have a wonderful wife I met at Rutgers while we were both there. She was in the Ph.D. program. She is not an actress.… — Mike Colter
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear… — Mary Roach
Less is a bore. — Robert Venturi

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