Bore

Famous quotes containing the word bore:

    “Eve: I’m afraid Mr. DeWitt would find me boring before too long.
    Miss Caswell: You won’t bore him, honey. You won’t even get a chance to talk.”
    —Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)

    “Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist—or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “So we may never
    Again feel fully confident of the stratagem that bore us
    And lived on a certain time after that. And it went away
    Little by little, as most things do. To profit
    By this mainstream is today’s chore and adventure.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)