Dull Quotes

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

Life would be dull without them.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.

An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.

Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

I'm so hyper. (said with a very dull voice>

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything.

Thoughts! what are they? They are my constant friends, who, when harsh fate its dull brow bends, uncloud me with a smiling ray, and in the depth of midnight force a day.

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

According to legend. Telford is so dull that the by-pass was built before the town.

I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

When life is foggy, path is unclear and mind is dull, remember your breath. It has the power to give you the peace. It has the power to resolve the unsolved equations of life.