“[Bill Clinton] has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore he is a bore and will always be a bore.”

“We can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Bill Gates is never going to be Bill Clinton, no matter how he polishes his social skills, and Bill Clinton can never be Bill Gates, no matter how much time he spends alone with a computer.”

“I wrote to my brother a few years ago. I told him I was bored with his e-mails about religion. Bored with his scientific perspective, as he calls it. Bored with political faith. I asked him to stop.”

“You can't be boring. Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.”

“Asil has appointed himself my guardian?" asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself.

"He was bored, he told me," said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. "I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again.”

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”

“A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.”

“She didn't bother to understand it all; it was--boring boring boring.”

“He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.”

“Only the boring get bored”