I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
War? War is an organized bore.
It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I'd found in an attic, saying, "I am a beautiful princess!" What my parents thought of this, I don't know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale.
It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.
Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.
No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.
A historian has many duties. . . the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore
They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!
Big book, a big bore.
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.
You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.
A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.