There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You've been holding a machete waiting to cut your way through and into the place called Future. You have waited and waited… — Chuck Pierce Copy Share Image
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says,… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had… — Nora Johnson Copy Share Image
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull. — Francine Mathews Copy Share Image
Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés,… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
