Bore Quotes

407 quotes by 357 authors

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with… — Mark Twain
No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore. — Douglas V. Steere
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. — James Russell Lowell
In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted… — John Updike
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. — Oscar Wilde
It's such a Bore Being always Poor. — Langston Hughes
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured. — W. Somerset Maugham
Never ask a bore a question. — Mason Cooley
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be… — Evelyn Waugh
Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault. — Henry A. Kissinger
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on… — Jo Brand
I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is… — Gordie Howe
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to… — Pauline Kael
They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will… — Charlize Theron
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this… — Terry Brooks
There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the… — Casey Abrams
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em. — Gail Carson Levine

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