Boring Quotes

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

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

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.

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

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Beauty without expression is boring.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

I'm pretty boring really.

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.

I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that's where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. I'd rather be outdoors having fun.

I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

No one wants to see a boring tube sock.

Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

'Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.

Just so you know, I'm a really boring interview. I hate doing them.

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make you boring.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

I don't think I'm boring.

As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

A finished person is a boring person.

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.

I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy.