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Boring Quotes

On avoiding boredom, embracing quirks, and boring routines that work.

Several quotes push back against the fear of being boring, preferring to keep challenging themselves rather than settle into one comfortable niche. See also Feel quotes.

Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.

Quotes by Ronnie Corbett

Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.

Quotes by Roman Polanski

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

Quotes by Roger Bannister

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

Quotes by Roger Bannister

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

Quotes by Rock Hudson

I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then...

Quotes by Robert Winston

Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton.

Quotes by Robert Vaughn

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting......

Quotes by Robert Loggia

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

Quotes by Robert Klein

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital...

Quotes by Robert Adamson

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster...

Quotes by Rob Sheffield

I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.

Quotes by Rob Portman

In real life, I am alarmingly boring.

Quotes by Rob Delaney

No one wants to see a boring tube sock.

Quotes by Rob Kardashian

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Roald Dahl

I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.

Quotes by Rider Strong

I don't like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won't hurt you. They'll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

Quotes by Rihanna

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

Quotes by Rick Riordan

How do you photograph a gadget in a new, and not boring, way? You have to get away from people sitting in front of a computer. You have to get a look at the digital signature.

Quotes by Rick Smolan

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

Quotes by Rick Moody

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about avoiding a boring routine?
Yes - one quote explains a personal philosophy: "I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time," warning that sticking to one comfortable niche forever "I'd be pretty boring."
Is there a quote about being quirky instead of boring?
Yes. One quote embraces its own personality: "I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring." For more on owning who you are, see Like quotes.
Is there a quote about a boring supporting role?
Yes - one quote points out a frustration: "It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character," describing how a limited role can feel dull over time.
Is there a quote about something "boring" that actually works?
Yes. One quote takes pride in an unglamorous approach: "My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish." For more on steady, consistent effort, see Good quotes.
Where can I find more quotes about personality and everyday life?
Browse Feel quotes and Life quotes for more.

One golfer even makes the case for boring, mundane, diligent routines, dull on paper but reliable under real pressure. Related pages: Good quotes and Like quotes.