#bores

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. ↗

— Edward Bond

#acquired #bores #empire #english #punishment

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me. ↗

— Anatole France

#bores #charm #gives #irritates #me

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. ↗

— Don Marquis

#bore #bores #each #never #other

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#bank #being #bores #church #fire

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#cemetery #mental #put #still #walking

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#classes #divided #into #need #own

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#because #bores #i #idea #intensely

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#everyone #five #gadget #immortal #lasts

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#anything #bores #men #them #willing

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. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#because #being #bores #drive #else