Bores Quote by Roger L'Estrange

“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

— Samuel Johnson

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed,…

— Samuel Johnson

“Your mind is wandering, desperately trying to keep itself amused. It's not crazy, says therapist Cineas; it could just be a way to occupy…

— Lenore Skenazy

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and…

— Bram Stoker

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“A disharmonious mind is disturbing in itself, but sooner or later it also causes physical problems.”

— Georg Feuerstein

“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

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton

“The attendant thinks it is some form of religious mania which has seized him. If so, we must look for squalls, for a strong…

— Bram Stoker

“He suspended thinking; his mind was a bloody vacancy, like a room in which there has been a butchering.”

— Michael Shaara