Dull Quotes

A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to dip in and out of, to hold, to have on your shelf.

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.

I find it dull when my heart meets my mind

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

It [Dr Phil] was great. We had such a good time. Never a dull moment on set, considering the 18 kids. It never got boring.

Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4

This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

Being successful is kind of dull.

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.