Dullness is the enemy.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a…

— Richard Powers

Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.

— David Levithan

The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the…

— Frederick Lenz

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life?…

— George Eliot

Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons…

— Ellen Glasgow

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

— Andre Agassi

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous…

— Camille Paglia

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

— Samuel Johnson

“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.”

— Terry Pratchett

You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen…

— Liz Williams

“I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five- or six-mile walk helps. And one must go alone and…

— Brenda Ueland

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.

— Peter Jackson

“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we…

— David Foster Wallace

Dullness is a courteous fear.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

— Benjamin Franklin