Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.
Leo Stein
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WAYNE PUGLISI An empowered heart is one filled with self love.
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[with credit to Gertrude Stein]
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LIU CIXIN You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
EARL NIGHTINGALE There is an emptiness in my soul that only you can fill up!
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SOURCE UNKNOWN Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to...
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SUSANNA KAYSEN ...love was desire and desire was an emptiness.
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RICHARD D. ROSEN Universal emptiness is mere concept.
The fact is, there was never emptiness.
TOBA BETA I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.
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When good fellows get together
With a stein on the table and a g...
RICHARD HOVEY Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.
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MARY RENAULT Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.'
'No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a P...
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'No, stupid,' Leo said. I'm a Leo. You're a Per...
RICK RIORDAN The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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HENRY MOORE This is an extreme legal theory, and our courts should not be filled with nonsense like this.
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ADAM CLARKE Boredom is underrated.
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PAUL ALKAZRAJI Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
CLIFTON FADIMAN Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
CLIFTON FADIMAN You!... just have filled your emptiness… My light reveals your soul’s wrinkles, singing this son...
ANCA MIHAELA BRUMA Passion kills boredom & boredom kills passion.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.
KAZUO ISHIGURO An empty street sucks your fullness; a full street fills your emptiness!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I am lost in emptiness like emptiness-LPD
LAXMI PRASAD DEVKOTA I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're lik...
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ALBERT CAMUS Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.
RICK RIORDAN Life is filled with endless opportunities.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA History is filled with fictional people.
ROBYN SCHNEIDER I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN The deal breaker so far is his insistence on keeping the ball.
MICHAEL LEE The book itself is not filled with sensational revelations, ... It's filled with a new explanation o...
PENNY JUNOR Leo is very good at what he does,
JOE TORRE Judge Sidney Stein ruled against our office, but we will appeal.
BRAD MAIONE In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
RICHARD BACH In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
RICHARD BACH The jogging machine makes me go insane with boredom.
DARCEY BUSSELL She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.
STUART JAFFE Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
GREGORY ''PAPPY'' BOYINGTON Create an inspirational environment for yourself filled with uplifting books, movies, quotes, and mu...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence...
WOODY ALLEN She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.
PAOLO GIORDANO Boredom is rage spread thin.
PAUL TILLICH Boredom is rage spread thin
PAUL TILLICH Boredom is the Devil's delight.
LINDSEY RIETZSCH The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with e...
CHARLIE SHEDD Nobody treating us like kids. For once, we gt to be equals, not babies. Could use more of that in th...
JOSS WHEDON the park is filled with Delgado students.
BOB BECKER Any good movie is filled with secrets.
MIKE NICHOLS Each day is filled with beautiful splendid.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly
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CRISTINA OJEDA Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.
LEMONY SNICKET It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Never settle for an average life, rather, settle for a life filled with unexpected magnificence.
SAM COLLINS JR.
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