Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.
I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.
I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.
I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.
I think President Obama is weak, bored with the office, and an incompetent leader.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
I've never been bored in live theater.
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something.
Work is making a living out of being bored.
My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.