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Cocaine is yucky. I did it once: I was at a party; I was bored. I was like, 'Alright, I'll do a line.' Then I was just bored longer.
Bonnie McFarlaneI want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.
Ali SmithThe Who always play 'I Can't Explain'; and we'll always play 'Wonderwall'. People ask us if we get bored of it. You can't get bored of 15,000 people shouting for 'Wonderwall'. That's better than drugs. You get a hard-on when you hear that.
Noel GallagherI don't like to play the same set every night. I think the band would prefer the same 12 songs, to be honest, but if I get bored, then I think the audience gets bored too.
Wayne HusseyWhen you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.
Don HertzfeldtIgnoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.
Paul MurrayI have heard about a patient - the psychiatrist was bored with him. Of course, he was getting enough money out of him, but he was getting bored by and by - three, four, five years of psychoanalysis, and the man was repeating the same again and again and again. The psychiatrist said, 'Do one thing: go to the mountains for a few days. That will be very helpful.'
RajneeshIf you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.
Darryl PinckneyNo one should ever be bored. โฆ One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one canโt be bored.
G. H. HardyThat could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the next thing you know you're yelling or throwing something or hitting someone. At that time, begin to accept the fact that that's "enraged buddha." If you feel jealous, that's "jealous buddha." If you have indigestion, that's "buddha with heartburn." If you're happy, "happy buddha"; if bored, "bored buddha." In other words, anything that you can experience or think is worthy of compassion; anything you could think or feel is worthy of appreciation.
Pema ChodronWith each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.
Roman PolanskiHe gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. โYouโre the shape-changer, arenโt you?โ he said. โMagnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say.โ Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the eye. They were discordantly human eyes, ordinary in his extraordinary face. โNo. No mark.โ He grinned around his fork. โI do suppose theyโve looked everywhere?โ โIโm sure Willโs tried,โ said Jessamine in a bored tone.
Cassandra ClareSometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.
John MarsdenBroadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.
Winston ChurchillBeware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.
Jessica ZafraWhy is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.
Phyllis Reynolds NaylorIf you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.
Julia ChildI have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.
William Allen WhiteShe had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.
Edith WhartonHe was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.
Gustave FlaubertI revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.
Jessica ValentiWe decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.
Joey RamoneTexting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.
Bill O'ReillyI think fans get bored of the pre-roll. I also think they don't care about the pre-roll, they just want the album.
Jack AntonoffThe saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich NietzscheYou can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
Boris VallejoLaw and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.
Chris NothI feel like that when I read certain feminist blogs or feminist magazines, where it's not even so much we've gone backwards, it's that I'm bored. Or it's like, oh wow, kids today are still dealing with the same exact issues.
Kathleen HannaIf you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.
Alfred Armand MontapertIf everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
Earl KingA Christian is never bored or sad. Rather, the one who loves Christ is full of joy and radiates joy.
Pope FrancisI've always liked elliptical writing, whether it's Kafka or Paula Fox, and I'm often bored by writers who explain too much. I think that becomes journalism. Mostly I don't try to explain to readers who somebody is - I just write about the somebody. I'm thinking through ideas. And I have the sense that, if you're reading this, you have some interest.
Lynne TillmanI'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
Bo BurnhamThere are a lot of self important people who make you believe they're artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I've sat down and listened to them and just been bored.
George HamiltonJust because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.
John ThornI love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.
Adriana LimaIf in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
Viggo Mortensen