Boredom Quote by Howard Jacobson

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.

— Mark Wahlberg

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure…

— Tom Preston-Werner

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

— Emily Atack

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

— Michael Caine

It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up…

— Claude Monet

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

— Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.

— Mark Lynas

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

— Edgar Degas

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served…

— Koichi Tanaka

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

I've always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn't get the spontaneous gene or the adventure…

— Caroline Knapp

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

— Jane Siberry