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.

George Hamilton

I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping.

Noel Coward

How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

William Golding

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

Steve Miller

Time keeps on slipping into the future.

Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone's in their own personal coma.