The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.
Some of those early photographs of me might as well be sepia. It's always thought that I disclaim television and am too theatre, but the truth is 'The Avengers' bores me now. I was grateful because it catapulted me into stage stardom. It was good. I'm not ashamed of it. But I only did it for two years.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
