#bore

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference. ↗

— Bruno Schulz

#indifference #boredom

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#perfection #utopia #boredom

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#john-watson #pistol-practice #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#chief #first #found #hand #heart

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#end #fake #get #hell #i

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#bore #care #fights #hundred #lest

Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people. ↗

— Will Arnett

#because #bit #bore #felt #first

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#body #condition #function #furthermore #laborers

You get bored if you do the same thing too much. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#get #much #same #thing #too

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#craves #ear #eye #familiar #hand