Dull Quotes

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.

The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

How peaceful life would be without love. How safe, how tranquil and how dull.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

Sister Simplicitie! Sing, sing a song to me,-- Sing me to sleep! Some legend low and long, Slow as the summer song Of the dull Deep.

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.

A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!

All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!

Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

O, pleasant is the welcome kiss When day's dull round is o'er; And sweet the music of the step That meets us at the door.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.