"I'm quiet – boring even – in real life.
Following his first championship ring in 1999, Sports Illustrated described him as a "quiet, boring MVP", a characterization which persists today.
Couples often like to say that their New Year's Eve plans are really boring -- a quiet dinner for two, a movie night with the kids.
Very boring and quiet outside".
Oh, do be quiet, you boring little man.
A lot of people lead quiet, rather boring lives, and soaps bring them into contact with a whole set of situations that they wouldn't necessarily have experienced.
The detective's private desperation is set against a growing public sense that quiet, liberal, boring Sweden is heading towards anarchy.
Just a little more than two decades ago, the credit-card business was a quiet, slightly boring industry dominated by banks looking for easy revenue.
Unfortunately we are unlikely to ever discover whether Roman Abramovich amused himself by cheerfully humming "boring, boring Chelsea" at a quiet moment this week.
