Dull Quotes

Dull Quote of the day

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Too much shine, can dull the soul

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

What is known for certain is dull.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

The Lilly girl is always full of surprises. She lives everyday like it's a celebration, never has a dull moment, and makes every hour a happy hour.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.

Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.