#bore

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. ↗

— John Updike

#adult #bore #consumes #each #half

The Beatles saved the world from boredom. ↗

— George Harrison

#boredom #saved #world

Boredom is the fear of self. ↗

— Marie Joséphine de Suin

#inspiration #inspirational

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. ↗

— Bjork

#any #bore #death #feminists #follow

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#agricultural #around #beauty #bored #doing

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. ↗

— Josh Billings

#find #fit #good #good way #happiness

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. ↗

— Bette Davis

#bored #did #i #me #never

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. ↗

— Karen Black

#am #bore #cook #could #course

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it. ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#became #bore #breath #conceived #discovered

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#get #i #irritated #nervous #never