
By 1940 Grace Hopper was bored. She had no children, her marriage was unexciting, and teaching math was not as fulfilling as she had hoped. —
Walter Isaacson

If you're bored tonight why don't you write down everything that comes to mind when you hear the word toothpaste? —
Jaclyn Moriarty

To be bored to death is a form of suicide. —
Frederick Buechner

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. —
Samuel Butler

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done. —
Julia Child

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. —
Zelda Fitzgerald

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. —
W. Somerset Maugham

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. —
Criss Jami

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge. —
Jack LaLanne

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. —
Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored. —
Edie Sedgwick

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. —
Samuel Butler

When bored, find a little cat and watch it; when very bored, find two little cats and watch them! —
Mehmet Murat Ildan

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. —
Erich Fromm

What did you think the answer would be, Elisabeth? I toy with you because I can. Because it gives me great pleasure. Because I was bored. —
S. Jae-Jones

He carries books everywhere he goes so he won't have to be bored by people. —
Alice Hoffman

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else. —
Diane Kruger

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. —
Matt Ridley

Sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date. —
Kiersten White

It's difficult to tell how much time is really passing when you're hungry and bored. —
Liesl Shurtliff

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person. —
Sade Adu

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it's raining. —
Noel Coward

I need some challenges in love or I'm bored. —
Simon Baker

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that. —
Eva Amurri

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. —
Dean Koontz

I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored. —
Aleksandra Ninkovic

People say you can get bored of the sunshine in L.A. No, you can't. —
Vinnie Jones

You've bitten her, but she's not yours." "Yet." "Looking for a challenge?" Baojia shrugged. "I hate being bored." The earth vampire just laughed. When —
Elizabeth Hunter

One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored. —
Jim Butcher

Sometimes you get bored of the same moves, but you know that there are those moves that those fans love. —
Ciara

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly. —
Frank Herbert

Sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him. —
Lena Dunham

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored. —
Armand Deutsch

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it. —
Amy Winehouse

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch. —
Karl Lagerfeld

There are times when I'm so bored with being healthy and organic that I crave sugar and additives. —
Martine McCutcheon