Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Kevin Rooney

His own boredom could be a problem. He could stay on top a long time -- if that's what he wants. That's a big 'if.' That's up to him. He's under a lot of pressure, and the next few years will be a problem. He won't mature until he's 25.

Bob Geldof

My depressions aren't so much... depression's too heavy a word. I get very down and y'know, boredom is the key to it as I've said.

Walter Kirn

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

Dwight L. Moody

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Daphne du Maurier

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Alexander McCall Smith

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

Clint Eastwood

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

James Watkins

People have to understand the ocean needs more attention, not only when there's a crisis, but in everyday life,

W. C. Fields

Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with.

Bill Shuster

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

Carl Sagan

The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

Leonard Sand

It gives some reflection of the impact on which jury service impacts on people's everyday lives,

Jane Fonda

I thank God and I thank Ted Turner (her estranged husband) everyday that I don't have to make movies.

Andrew Bogut

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. I just got to keep striving to work hard everyday and I think good things will happen. As long as we get the win it doesn't matter what I did.

Kathleen Schaben

It allows you to express words and thoughts that aren't necessarily permitted in everyday conversation.

Aaron Miles

I'm still here, still getting starts, still getting at-bats, so I feel like I'm one of the options. I'm not sure if they've made their mind up over who's going to be the everyday starter or where I fit in the mix, but I feel like I'm at least somewhere in that equation.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Aleksandar Hemon

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

Daniel Kahneman

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Anthony Hopkins

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Jane Austen

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Jane Hirshfield

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Jim Gaffigan

My comedy is romanticized laziness.

Jeremy Taylor

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.