Boring Quotes - page 3

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents - because they have a tame child-creature in their house. (Frank Zappa)
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. View quote
Frank Zappa
If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring. View quote
George Soros
Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it? View quote
Yukio Mishima
Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas. View quote
Jim Butcher
Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. View quote
Simone Weil
I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring. View quote
Johan Cruyff
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring. View quote
Philip Johnson
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony. (Andrei Gromyko)
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
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. View quote
E. M. Forster
It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word. View quote
Arundhati Roy
You're probably the most boring teenager in the world. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
If you're watchin' a parade, make sure you stand in one spot, don't follow it, it never changes. And if the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction, you will fast-forward the parade. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia. View quote
N. K. Jemisin
Things are only boring if you are boring. View quote
Will Self
That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people. View quote
George Harrison
Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Dying's a boring side effect. (Maggie Stiefvater)
I leave you with a complaint. Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... well, it's because the national anthem is boring. View quote
Billy Connolly
Most people are boring and stupid. View quote
Oscar Wilde
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other. View quote
Fritz Leiber