Jonathan Carroll Quotes

I'm a cliche.

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I think being boring is just the worst sin of all time.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

I am a bit boring.

I can be fairly boring.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

I'm kind of boring.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

I'm pretty boring.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

I like boring things.

I'm very boring.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

I am boring. I'm fine with boring.

The drums can get pretty boring as a solo instrument.