Dull Quotes · Page 16

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

— Jaden Smith

I love chaos… It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

— Ben Shahn

“The path that leads to triumph is long, tedious, and crooked.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

— Heinrich Heine

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

— John Dos Passos

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Problems are there to be solved. How dull life would be without them.”

— Philip Sington

Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.

— Devin Townsend

If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him…

— Watchman Nee

You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a…

— Michael Wincott

“Interesting," said I, "is a term I reserve to describe people or things so dull or ordinary, that I can find no…

— Syrie James

“Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were…

— Mitch Albom

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

— Anonymous

Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and…

— Robyn Dawes

The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological…

— Jim Woodring

I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting…

— Marcel Dzama

You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are…

— Anonymous

It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading…

— Stewart O'Nan

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if…

— Plato

I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in…

— Harmony Korine

A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he…

— John Grogan

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but…

— Emily Post

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

— Victor Hugo

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

— W. S. Gilbert

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

— H. L. Mencken

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

— Francis Galton

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

— Lloyd Alexander

“Too often our visions of the future are dull and impotent like a hammer beating the water.”

— Harley King

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

— Samuel Smiles

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

— Oscar Wilde

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

— Louisa May Alcott

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

— Albert Camus

In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text.

— George Saunders

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

— Heinrich Heine

It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice

— Susan L. Taylor

Dull not your shine for anyone, let the biotches squint!!!

— Romi Voorhies

I cannot handle dull, lazy, morose people. I have been like that since childhood.

— Ravi Teja

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

— Charles Darwin