I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.
For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
We always get bored with those whom we bore.
Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
The most important thing is that you don't bore the audience.
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.
I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.