Boring conversations Quotes

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.

I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.

Sometimes you're just interviewing someone and you're thinking the entire time, How can I get through this really quickly? Because I know this isn't gonna make it. This person is either too long-winded or deathly boring, or they don't have the point of view that supports what you're trying to do in the piece. Or often people misrepresent themselves on the phone - what they're willing to say to you then, they're not willing to say in person.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.