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Source: Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures

“Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?”

“You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.”

Would Be Dangerous Boring Likes Reactions Versace

Author:Donatella Versace

“You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.”

Boring Seductive

Author:Donatella Versace

“A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.”

World Perfect Photography Photographer Photograph Boring

Book:The Perfect Photograph

Source: The Perfect Photograph

“What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.”

Art Lying Discipline Structure Boring Formulas Redundancy

Author:Wendy Carlos

“A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.”

Persons Silence Solitude Empty Boring Consideration

Book:The Paradise Trilogy

Source: The Paradise Trilogy

“To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.”

People Children Funny Bits Worst Honest Listening Conversation Boring Dinner Being Honest Dinner Conversation

Author:Prince Harry

“Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.”

War Television Boring Destructive Gambling Immoral Suicidal Pornography Percentages Watching Television

Book:Inside Las Vegas

Source: Inside Las Vegas

“Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume—to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term.”

“From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.”

Stars Views Boring Surface Point Of View Interiors Molecules Chemist

Author:Roald Hoffmann

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.”

Ifs Thinking Want Enough Care Genius Madness Boring Ridiculous Bother Imperfection Caring Enough Imperfection Is Beauty

Author:Marilyn

“The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!”

Talking West Boring

Book:D.V.

Source: D.V.

“I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.”

Age Remember Terrible Boring My Birthday Terrible Times

Book:D.V.

Source: D.V.

“People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—”

People Different Destiny Millions Boring Unhappy Instance Drag Unnoticed One In A Million

Author:Anton Chekhov

“An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.”

Knows Ought Add Affair Boring Now And Then Spices Funny Marriage

Author:Bette Davis

“I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?”

Two Play Girl Goes On Golf Boring Girl I Like

Author:Alan Shearer

“It does not bother me that some say I'm dull and boring because the people that do know me will tell you a different story. It is very difficult to be open with people you don't know. There is nothing I can do about the fact that the real me does not get across and it is probably difficult to know the real me.”

People Knows Doe I Can Different Real Facts Stories Difficult Can Do Boring Bother Dull Know Me Real Me

Author:Alan Shearer

“I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.”

Thinking World Economics Boring Better Place

Author:Evan Davis

“Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty.”

Character Running Mets Projects Europe Machines Exciting West Extraordinary Boring East London Britain Engineering Infrastructure Tunnels Visiting Railway Dainty

Author:Evan Davis

“It [Dr Phil] was great. We had such a good time. Never a dull moment on set, considering the 18 kids. It never got boring.”

Moments Kids Boring Dull Good Times Considering Drs Dr Phil

Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“Success would be a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No, success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning”

Ifs Would Be Difficult Boring Ingredients Layers Dishes Uninspiring Pallets

Author:Chris Murray

“Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world”

World Would Be Photography Add Boring Extras Dimensions Places In The World

Author:Rennie Ellis

“I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.”

Years Running Morning Boring Miles Get Up Obsessed Hangover

Author:Trisha Goddard

“The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.”

World Sick Boring Boring Life

Author:Edith Massey

“My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.”

Long Said Home School Mother Father Left Behinds Understood Boring Saved Piano Grandmother My Sister Left Behind Me Alone Adorable School Life So Boring

Author:Michel Legrand

“Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.”

Life Wells Sometimes Life Is Loss Perfect Wonderful Terrible Battle Comfortable Okay Misery Boring Supposed To Be Bliss Not Perfect Another Day Sometimes In Life

Author:Barbara Sher

“Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.”

People Ifs Years Wells Long Enough Lying Sex Argument Boring Deceit

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.”

Source: The Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in a Harsh New World of Professional Tennis

“You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s so boring. It’s the opposite of creativity. Rules are ridiculous things that are meant to be broken.”

Knows Should Hate Creativity Broken Red Opposites I Hate Green Rose Boring Arguing Ridiculous Meant To Be Formulas Scenarios So Boring Ridiculous Things Red Leaves Roses Are Red

Author:Philip Treacy

“That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.”

People Want Worst Television Boring Idols Entertaining Circus American Idol

Author:Nigel Lythgoe

“I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.”

I Can Two Earth Week Months Six Boring Honestly Bored Gym Six Months Bothered Two Weeks Boring Things So Bored

Author:Carol Vorderman

“The last thing the world needs is another boring person or another boring brand, so embrace all the things that make you different. Alter your clothes all you want, but don't you dare alter your inner freak - she's got your back as much as I do.”

World Want Needs Persons Different Lasts Clothes Embrace Dare Boring Brands Freak Got Your Back Boring Person

Book:#Girlboss

Source: #Girlboss

“Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.”

Feels Boring Uncomfortable Disgusting Cliche

Author:Tom DeLonge

“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”

People Humanity Boring Idiot

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.”

People Way May Perfect Failing Promise Wine Boring Fascinating Flawed Precocious

Author:Michael Broadbent

“I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.”

Want Social Boring Social Life Social Skills

Author:Daniel Johns

“A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.”

Should Doe Minutes Ten Boring Oil Strikes Speakers

Author:Louis Nizer

“There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.”

Ifs World Kind Two Book Real Happens School Lying Dies Sex Stuff Interesting Boring Divorce History Books Real Stuff

Book:Muchacho: A Novel

Source: Muchacho: A Novel

“Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.”

Way Mean Running Passion Boring Partnership Mundane Good Way Nonprofits

Author:Lori Gottlieb

“I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.”

Boring California Introvert Introverted Boring Life

Author:Brian Bosworth

“I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.”

People Baseball Boring Arguing

Author:Joe Posnanski

“Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.”

Decision Argument Court Boring Supreme Fascinating Supreme Court Really Pretty

Author:Dan Abrams

“I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.”

Life Life Is Boring Too Short Life Is Too Short Short Life Boring Things

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.”

Should Mathematics Boring

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.”

Ifs Ends Chance Stupid Television Boring Significant Explanation Mechanism Chances Are Monotonous

Author:Bob Black

“Steve Trevor was dull and boring and I didn't like him much so I disposed of him.”

Boring Dull

Author:Mike Sekowsky

“This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.”

Boring Insiders Pundits Saying The Same Thing Over And Over Media Training

Author:Michael Deaver

“The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.”

Ifs Life Wells May Art Shows Hands Life Is Loses Loss Boring Deception Fake Now And Then Diplomacy Candor So Boring

Author:E. V. Lucas

“There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting set of ideas that is the math of the world, and is curiously different and surprisingly engaging. Our task is to introduce this second version to today's students, get them excited about math, and prepare them for the future.”

Source: What's Math Got to Do with It?: How Teachers and Parents Can Transform Mathematics Learning and Inspire Success

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