All Quotes

Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
‐‐ Zoey Deutch

Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
‐‐ Renata Adler

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.
‐‐ Ernst Haas

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
‐‐ Robert M. Pirsig

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
‐‐ Guy Debord

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is rage spread thin.
‐‐ Paul Tillich

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.
‐‐ Amy Seimetz

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
‐‐ Alex Kapranos

Boredom: the desire for desires.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
‐‐ Don Marquis

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

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
‐‐ Elsa Maxwell

Boring heroines are, in my opinion, the most common romance mistake. We loathe hanging out with women who define themselves purely through their relationships... why would we want to read about them?
‐‐ Sarah MacLean

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
‐‐ Douglas Horton

Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
‐‐ Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
‐‐ Dennis Miller

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.
‐‐ George III of the United Kingdom

Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
‐‐ Fay Godwin

'Born Free' was the first film I ever saw. I just fell in love with the idea of people having that bond with a wild animal.
‐‐ Martin Clunes

Born in 1910, Wilfrid Thesiger spent his childhood in Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, as it was then called, where his father was an important and much-admired British official.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
‐‐ Harald zur Hausen

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!
‐‐ Deborah Copaken Kogan

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
‐‐ Samuel Foote

Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
‐‐ Thorstein Veblen

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.
‐‐ Arjun Rampal

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends.
‐‐ David Douglas Duncan

Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will drain Faenza and Florence of gold and people.
‐‐ Nostradamus

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.
‐‐ Cheech Marin

Born in the silent era, with the first ceremony hosted by Douglas Fairbanks at the Roosevelt Hotel, the Oscars are a tradition in a business that doesn't have much of it, and the biggest spectacle in a business that's often nothing but.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

Born of a noble father and a saintly mother, President Hinckley learned as a young boy the truths of the restored gospel from his faithful parents. He came to respect deeply and value highly his pioneer heritage.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.
‐‐ Marcus Buckingham

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
‐‐ Duane Chapman

Born on an island, I could swim before I could walk, thrown many times into swimming pools and warm transparent Caribbean waters: sink or swim, that was my first lesson. While I'm not a natural athlete, I'm still a strong swimmer and feel a great affinity with the sea.
‐‐ Monique Roffey

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
‐‐ Pope John XXIII

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.
‐‐ David Carradine