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Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights ' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Travel books are by and large boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact fiction and autobiography.

Just to travel is rather boring but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher like my parents. I failed - no I didn't fail a class I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history through the plays of the time. My God those were boring plays.

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players bands that play quiet unassuming music and TV shows that win awards. In that way I am an elitist snob.

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is 'It's insane! And as a person I can't do anything!'

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion although you will not find me saying so in print.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer and then itself marches upon neighboring lands killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Without music to decorate it time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.