Dull Quotes · Page 17

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

— Sylvia Plath

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

— Colleen McCullough

In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

— P. J. O'Rourke

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

— Samuel Johnson

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

— David Eagleman

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

— Samuel Foote

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook…

— William Shakespeare

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

— Anthony Burgess

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find…

— Michael Caine

How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we…

— Amelia Earhart

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round…

— Fritz Kreisler

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always…

— Oscar Wilde

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we…

— Clifford Stoll

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that…

— Douglas Adams

And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt…

— Kurt Busiek

I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a…

— Anonymous

During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole…

— Charles Darwin

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Margaret is the first person who understands that my dull universe is the place where self-loathing blends with sitcoms and dullness like…

— Molly Jong-Fast

“Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed,…

— Rebecca Solnit

“girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would…

— Charles Bukowski

“There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.”

— Richard Le Gallienne

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

— Zachary Cole Smith

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

— Anonymous

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

— Bruce Tate

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

— Samuel Johnson

We didn't want to be a po-faced, dull band - we wanted to have fun.

— James Righton

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".

— Joseph Pilates

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

— Pearl S. Buck

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

— Charles de Lint

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

— Anonymous

The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.

— Richard M. Nixon

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

— Max Ehrmann

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

— John Lancaster Spalding

“She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull,”

— Sinclair Lewis

The town was so dull: one day the tide went out, and it never came back.

— Tommy Cooper