Dull Quotes
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.
Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns
I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is because they are not in the battle, not using their weapons, not advancing against the enemy.
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?
I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
Do kids ever tire of Christmas? The excitement of this job is never dull because in all the years and thousands of games I've called I've never done the same one twice.
You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.
Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".
All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.
Show me a person who has nothing to hide, and I'll show you a person who is either exceedingly dull - or a complete exhibitionist
You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.
Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.
How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true.
Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.
Going back to Baltimore is awesome because all my friends still live there and there's never a dull moment when you're hanging out with your high-school friends.
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob.
The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.
So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn quite hides in smoke and haze; The place we occupy seems all the world.
Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself.