A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.

Adam Ant
Adam Ant

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

Adebayo Akinfenwa
Adebayo Akinfenwa

Boredom does get you into trouble and we footballers have a lot of time on our hands, and sometimes we fill up that time with stuff that isn't always positive.

Al Boliska
Al Boliska

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Alex Kapranos
Alex Kapranos

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

Alia Shawkat
Alia Shawkat

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

Alice Dreger
Alice Dreger

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.

Alissa Quart
Alissa Quart

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

Amy Seimetz
Amy Seimetz

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.