
“I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.”
“I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.”
“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”
Uses of Great Men
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
[Suzy, Kolber, http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1930185, Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre, ESPN.com, November 24, 2004, 2007-11-12]
“I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.”
Statement at age 80 in The New York Times (3 April 1970)
“I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy … I'm not. I'm boring… At least by party standards.”
As quoted in "A Conversation Runs Through It" by Bruce Handy in Time magazine (13 October 1997) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,987166,00.html
“She didn't bother to understand it all; it was--boring boring boring.”
Source: The Looking Glass Wars
“The world seemed cruel and boring, and I'm not sure which was worse.”
"Why Nerds are Unpopular," February 2003
Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHq2aN9tYE by Penny Daniels (1989)