Dull Quotes · Page 13

Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

— Douglas Adams

If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

— Rumi

If you won every game, which is impossible, then life would be flat and dull.

— Massimiliano Allegri

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Light that guides has full effect whenever it path is blocked, however, constantly dull remains usual darkî

— Jegede Abiodun

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

— Prince Harry

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

— Italo Calvino

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Sydney Thompson Dobell

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

— Damien Hirst

Why, Sir, Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken a great deal of pains to become what…

— Anonymous

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

— Laura Joh Rowland

Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out…

— Robert Denning

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read…

— Caitlin Moran

Jenks made a move to follow, probably forgetting he didn’t have wings anymore. He leaned forward and fell to the floor, face…

— Kim Harrison

An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever…

— Shirley MacLaine

It can be said with complete confidence that any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important…

— Peter Medawar

I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the…

— Yvon Chouinard

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.…

— Alfred Hitchcock

When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and…

— Sun Tzu

[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even…

— William Thomas Beckford

Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is…

— William Dampier

GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and…

— Mary Oliver

Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or…

— Peter Medawar

[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.

— Margaret Whiting

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

— John James Audubon

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Alfred Marshall

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

— Martha Washington

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

There's never a dull moment on a David O. Russell set. But that's the beauty of it. That's the magic.

— Edgar Ramirez

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

— James Brown

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

— Horace

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

— Edward Albee

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

— Scott Spencer

“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.”

— Françoise Sagan

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.

— Gerald Scarfe

According to legend. Telford is so dull that the by-pass was built before the town.

— Victor Lewis-Smith

“There's supposed to be drama. The dull stories never make it into the books.”

— Ellery Adams

Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

— Derren Brown