Dull Quotes

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.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

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?

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.