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  • [I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

    Men   Bored   Computer  
    Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner (1996). “Cool Memories II, 1987-1990”, Duke University Press Books
  • Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

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

    "The beatnik turned natural birth expert". Interview with Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.
  • Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

    Boredom   World   Firsts  
  • ...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

    Ideas   Bored   Kind  
    Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”
  • What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

    Education   School   Mean  
  • My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

    Bored   Routine   Want  
    John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.23, A&C Black
  • A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

    Men   Bores You   Boredom  
    The So-Called Human Race (1922) p. 163
  • Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.

    "The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2003.
  • Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

  • Staying busy keeps me away from being bored, which used to be a lot of my problem.

    Bored   Problem   Busy  
  • Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

  • Work is making a living out of being bored.

    "Is Karl Lagerfeld Retiring?" by Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 19, 2016.
  • You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

    "Where do you get your ideas?" by Neil Gaiman, www.neilgaiman.com. 1997.
  • I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.

  • The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

    Funny   Life   Wisdom  
  • The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

    Art   Past   Bores You  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.157, New Directions Publishing
  • You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

  • ... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.

  • And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

    Bored   Parent   Routine  
    "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.
  • It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

    Art   Successful   Bored  
  • If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  • I was disappointed in Coop. He hated being bored and so did I. He was always looking for different things to do and coming up with new adventures that kept us moving. That was his job. Trolling for girls at the beach was okay by me, but I didn't want it to be our sole focus. Besides, the girls I liked had more interesting things to do than spend every waking moment sitting around at the beach comparing tans.

    Girl   Beach   Jobs  
    D.J. MacHale (2010). “The Light”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
  • I am terrified of being bored.

  • Being bored is an insult to oneself.

    Funny   Humorous   Self  
    Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books
  • I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

    Jobs   Thinking   Bored  
  • The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.

    School   Mean   Math  
    Rudy Rucker (2013). “Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality”, p.3, Courier Corporation
  • I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

    Memories   Men   Years  
    Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.79, Vintage
  • The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

    Bored   Boring   Bores  
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