Dull Quotes
I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.
Heterosexuality as we know it is so plain boring, dumb, dull and artificial, it has to be imposed upon people, otherwise they don't take it.
A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull.
Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.
Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.
Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.
The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.
Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.
But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.
A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.
If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.
There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
