Bores Quote by Elsa Maxwell

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

— Elsa Maxwell

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

— Henry Ford

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex,…

— Markus Zusak

“We want something we can detect and observe, but can’t objectively measure, and we use objective measures that consistently extinguish the spark.”

— Oliver DeMille

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

— Galileo Galilei

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

— Anonymous

“Scientists can explain the aurora borealis if they wish, but they cannot take away its impact on an individual’s consciousness. What we know and…

— Mary J. Macleod

“judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“How long your closet held a whiff of you, Long after hangers hung austere and bare. I would walk in and suddenly the true…

— Madeleine L'Engle

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is measure in all things.

— Horace