Zitat des Tages über Bohrungen / Bores:
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
To be honest with you, there's nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I've got friends that are actors. They're interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there's a part of me that doesn't like it.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Variety is important when it comes to exercise. I don't do anything that bores me to tears.
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
I've had to listen to candidates tell me they are the most wonderful thing since the invention of sliced bread, and it bores me to death. It also makes me doubt that they are actually any good at all - plus it's an attitude that would never fly in the culture I've created in my company.
Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Writing bores me so.
