Dull Quotes · Page 15

If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

— Anonymous

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

— Charles Bukowski

The only difference between and intelligent person and a proposed dull person is the time the utilize

— DANIEL UMEH

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

— Thomas Gray

“I like dull.” I fastened my seatbelt. “Life just didn’t get the memo.”

— Hailey Edwards

Steve Trevor was dull and boring and I didn't like him much so I disposed of him.

— Mike Sekowsky

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

— William Congreve

“When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy.”

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

— H. L. Mencken

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had…

— Wilfred Owen

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at…

— Oscar Wilde

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form…

— Charles Bukowski

“I am genuinely dull. Duller than the world's dullest-ever thing, so dull it's not worth the time it takes to imagine it.”

— Dawn French

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but…

— Konrad Lorenz

It's so boring when you're not here. It makes it dull in the atmosphere. I hate when you're not by my side.…

— Anonymous

He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art…

— John Bunyan

I've had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by…

— Buster Keaton

One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty…

— David Foster Wallace

However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren…

— Richard Dawkins

I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of…

— Bayard Taylor

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll…

— Ernest Hemingway

It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these…

— Thubten Yeshe

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and…

— Margaret Cavendish

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”

— George Orwell

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

— Charles Spurgeon

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

— Edward Young

“Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.”

— Erika Lopez

“life becomes dull without the colors of emotion to enrich it.”

— Hanna Peach

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

— Grenville Kleiser

Friendly Fires were dull, and I wouldn't really sit down and listen to Hot Chip.

— Craig Revel Horwood

Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.

— Anthony J. Carson

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

— John Oldham

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

— Anonymous

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

— Bryan Procter

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

— Evan Esar

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe