“You can't be boring. Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.”
Stella Adler (1901–1992) American actress and teaching coach
Obituary in New York Times
Plato ist langweilig.
What I Owe to the Ancients, 2
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
Variant: Plato is boring.
“You can't be boring. Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.”
Stella Adler (1901–1992) American actress and teaching coach
Obituary in New York Times
“She didn't bother to understand it all; it was--boring boring boring.”
Frank Beddor book The Looking Glass Wars
Source: The Looking Glass Wars
“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“Things are only boring if you are boring.”
Will Self (1961) English writer and journalist
'Room 101', BBC2, March 19th, 2001.
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
Referring to her teenage diary, in an interview in Movie magazine (July 1983)
“Doing anything when you're bored is veryboring. Anyway, isof being bored. Theof being bored isand”
Aidan Chambers (1934) British children's writer
Source: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
“When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
“Call me bored, but don't call me boring.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199705101952.MAA00756@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997