Tag: Douglas Horton

– “A finished person is a boring person.” – Anna Quindlen

– “A lot of people stop short. They don’t actually die but they say, ‘Right I’m old, and I’m going to retire,’ and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.” – Mary Wesley

– “A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.” – Franz Kafka

– “Age shouldn’t affect you. It’s just like the size of your shoes – they don’t determine how you live your life! You’re either marvellous or you’re boring, regardless of your age.” – Steven Morrissey

– “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” – Chuck Palahniuk

– “All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I’d like them to say, Carol’s basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol’s kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.” – Carol Moseley Braun

– “American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.” – Sid Vicious

– “An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.” – Bette Davis

– “An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.” – Charles de Montesquieu

– “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

– “And some poets are far better read off the page because they’re very bad speakers. I’m thinking of one in particular whom I won’t name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.” – Norman MacCaig

– “And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.” – Richard Attenborough

– “Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you’ve got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn’t call it gestural crap.” – Morton Feldman

– “Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.” – Hilaire Belloc

– “Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.” – Dave Barry

– “Basically, my life is so boring, it’s embarrassing.” – Hugh Grant

– “Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she’s beautiful but don’t have anything to talk about, it’s going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.” – Amanda Peet

– “Beauty without expression is boring.” – Waldo Emerson

– “Boring people are a reflection of boring people.” – Douglas Horton

– “Brittany Murphy… who knows if she’s going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she’s really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.” – Jackie Collins