Bores Quotes

470 Bores quotes by 385 unique authors

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. — Edward Weston
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that… — Rene Magritte
The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It… — John Shelby Spong
One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge… — Lee Krasner
I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God. — Orson Welles
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore. — William Osler
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition, — Yves Saint Laurent
Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking. — Susan Jacoby
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it. — William Hazlitt
As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every… — John Dryden
There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover. — Saul Bellow
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore… — John Quincy Adams
I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped. — Ricky Gervais
Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more… — Ron Fournier
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me. — Anatole France
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to… — Carlos Fuentes
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. — Andre Gide
Only those who want everything done for them are bored. — Billy Graham
I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans… — Simon Cowell
The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just… — Jonathan Davis

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