Bores Quotes

470 Bores quotes by 385 unique authors

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
I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that… — Christopher Hitchens
I read theÂ Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating. — Keith Richards
Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if… — Samuel West
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. — Francis Picabia
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
Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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,… — Unknown Author
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

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