Quotessence
Home / Topics / Boring Quotes

Boring Quotes

Browse 1938 quotes about Boring.

Related topics

PeopleIfsThinkingWantKnowsKindWayInterestingWorldWritingSo BoringTryingWould BeLittlesMeanPersonsBoredStoriesFunCharacterWellsDifferentBitsBookPlayBoredomLongFeelsI CanRealLife IsMenNeedsYearsArtShouldSometimesExcitingLooksStuffBoring LifeDullBoring ThingsFirstsImportantKidsReasonHardIdeasSaidSeemsShowsFilmStillsWholeHomePerfectDoneMindSchoolTwoActorsEnoughGivingHappensNormalAudienceDoeGuyJobsMightStupidBeautifulChildrenEndsBelieveHateRunningHumansWantedGirlReadingFacesHoursNightWaitingDifficultFoundHas BeensLastsMomentsYoungBigsCareCoursesMaySceneSongWatchesActingmore

Boring Quotes

“The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.”

WorldWellsMeanDoeArtBeliefChallengesHalfFantasyThis WorldComfortableArt IsSurpriseBoringMoodRevelationsArrogantTrapsVentureDeliciousSmugness
Author:Russell Lynes
Create image

“The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.”

WorldWayWantFeelsDoeImportantNamesSimpleInterestingDemandStressComplexesPatientBusyBoringSymbolsBelovedAssumptionCarrieIgnoredSensitivitySymptomsDeprivedNeurosisOld WorldOrchidsStatus SymbolHigh Strung
Author:Florence King
Create image

“Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.”

PeopleShouldEnoughPlaySeemsHeavenBitsWaitingLinesStepsHellSkyCenturyListeningBlueCloudsBoringLuxuryHotelOverratedBlue SkyHarps17th CenturyLuxury Hotels
Author:Joel Stein
Create image

“A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.”

GivingSelfGamesCuttingRepublicanDemocratConservativeBoringRighteousSoberCheerfulGatheringImaginativeDissentRespectableSkillfulSelf RighteousPompousGive And TakeRowdyAnti Conservative
Author:Clinton Rossiter
Create image

“One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!”

MotivationalUsedSexWonderTeamCreaturesTrainingTestsBoringDevicesDislikeTediousGrimNoisyRowingHaving SexBeastlyNational TeamErgs
Author:Brad Alan Lewis
Create image

“We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.”

ThinkingWorldNeedsMistakeQualityFocusMaterialsResourcesBoringPreservesControlledConsumptionUniformsExpandingQuality Of LifeEcosystemsStagnantFertility
Author:Donella Meadows
Create image

“Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among people? Or do you wish everyone would just agree with you so you could all get along? Many people mistake uniformity for unity; sameness for oneness. One word--boring! Differences should be seen as strengths, not weaknesses. They add zest to life.”

PeopleShouldValuesWishDifferencesMistakeEmotionalWeaknessAgreeAddUnityBoringPsychologicalOnenessOne WordUniformitySamenessZestSynergy
Author:Stephen Covey
Create image