{"topic":"boredom","quotes":[{"quote":"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.","author":"Ambrose Bierce"},{"quote":"A finished person is a boring person.","author":"Anna Quindlen"},{"quote":"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.","author":"Bert Leston Taylor"},{"quote":"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk"},{"quote":"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.","author":"Dorothy Parker"},{"quote":"Someone's boring me. I think it's me.","author":"Dylan Thomas"},{"quote":"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.","author":"Frank Moore Colby"},{"quote":"Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.","author":"George Saunders"},{"quote":"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.","author":"Gian Vincenzo Gravina"},{"quote":"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.","author":"H. L. Mencken"},{"quote":"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.","author":"Henry Kissinger"},{"quote":"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.","author":"John Updike"},{"quote":"The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.","author":"Nancy Astor"},{"quote":"Every hero becomes a bore at last.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson"},{"quote":"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.","author":"Voltaire"},{"quote":"The secret of being boring is to say everything.","author":"Voltaire"},{"quote":"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale <br>Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.","author":"William Shakespeare"},{"quote":"[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn�t boring.","author":"Zelda Fitzgerald"}]}