#boring

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring. ↗

— David Halberstam

#boring #cardinal #easiest #easiest thing #get

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#accounting #boring #care #ever #find

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#footsteps #hollow #made #only #own

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#might #revealing #still #too #what if

You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#boring #create #dangerous #everybody #likes

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. ↗

— John Cage

#boring #discovers #eight #eventually #four

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow. ↗

— Oded Fehr

#always #boring #character #does #fearless

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#any #arrive #boring #call #combination

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#boring #heroes #heroines #inspire #like

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#around #boring #complaining #done #else