“Cooking is like decorating — it never bores me.”

“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

“She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.”

Anthony Trollope book Barchester Towers

“I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

“… a metaphor… is like lying but more decorative.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

“Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked.”

Heinrich Müller (1900–1945) German police official and head of the Gestapo

“Call me bored, but don't call me boring.”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.

From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet