A finished person is a boring person.

I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

—Anna Quindlen

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

—Anna Quindlen

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

—Anna Quindlen

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

—Ambrose Bierce

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

—Henry Kissinger

I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

—H. L. Mencken

For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

—James Hillman