Bore Quotes

407 quotes by 357 authors

Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke… — Miriam Schapiro
Movies bore me; especially my own. — Robert Mitchum
Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore;… — Olivia de Havilland
Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore. — Edward Abbey
The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting,… — Ray Bradbury
You canâ€™t learn to write in college. Itâ€™s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you doâ€”and… — Ray Bradbury
The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails… — Samuel Rutherford
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore… — C.S. Lewis
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. — Alan Bennett
In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them. — Katharine Whitehorn
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded,… — Valerie Solanas
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you,… — B. J. Chute
Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they… — Benjamin Franklin
You cannot bore people into buying your product - you can only interest them in buying it. — David Ogilvy
A good friend, who knows whereof he speaks, has observed of trials, â€˜If itâ€™s fair, it is not a true trial!â€™ That is, without the… — Neal A. Maxwell
No, I don't like recording. It's a bore. — Buddy Rich
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia!… — Jean Dubuffet
We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener… — Brenda Ueland
Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and… — Oswald Spengler

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