If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
Boredom is a choice. Like tardiness. Or interrupting.
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.
The jogging machine makes me go insane with boredom.
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
TV is no longer the best alternative to boredom. To kids not old enough for Snapchat, music is the best alternative to boredom. For Snapchat users, it's the best alternative to boredom.
I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.
In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?
Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
You have to evolve. Stagnation breeds boredom.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers in as many different accents as I could manage. I started with one that I didn't think would alert any suspicion - generic Asian - then moved on to Irish, Welsh, Australian and American.
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
