"The combination to be on guard for is……" — Craig Clevenger
"The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking."
—
Craig Clevenger
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
More Bored Quotes
This quote is filed under Bored Quotes,
one of 1,195 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
— Richard Bach
-
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
-
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
— Walter Benjamin
-
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
-
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
-
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
— Renata Adler
-
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I…
— Theodore Bikel
-
I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not…
— Christina Aguilera
-
I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
— Danny Boyle
-
I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do.…
— Tom Brady
-
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
See all 1,195 Bored Quotes »