Boards Quote by Daniel Radcliffe

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a great love…

— James Dyson

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics…

— Henry David Thoreau

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a…

— George Bernard Shaw

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

— Jacques Barzun

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull…

— Martin Parr

“My grandmother used to tell us a story of a mountain of loadstone. When any vessels came near it, they were instantly deprived of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today it’s economically crucial and personally rewarding to create something that is also beautiful, whimsical, or emotionally engaging.

— Daniel H. Pink

Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

“Boredom is the only continuity the ironist has.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

I don't get mobbed in the street or bothered. Well, people do stop and say nice things. 'I like 'Endeavour,' or, 'I loved The…

— Roger Allam

“Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms, partly from…

— Olaf Stapledon