A person content to be bland will never be anyone's first…

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

— Hesiod

Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of…

— Liane Moriarty

If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all that, I…

— Dave Abrams

“Mark’s ideas tended to the bland, and there was no point in asking Miles, whose embittered suggestions all ran to things like Vomit Vanilla…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little…

— Grete Waitz

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

— Rick Santorum

I really like people who can do both drama and comedy and not some like middle of the road do both drama and comedy.…

— James Gunn

Do you want to increase your hunger for the Lord? Try weaning yourself from the world's diet- be prepared for some withdrawal symptoms when…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the…

— Audrey Niffenegger

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

— Marian Burros

If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the…

— Judy Blume

“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.”

— André Aciman

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

— Rose Tremain

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic…

— Olaf Stapledon

Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road…

— Christian Rudder