Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Oh, well. What's a royal ball? After all, I suppose it would be frightfully dull, and-and-and boring, and-and completely... Completely wonderful. -Cinderella — Cinderella Copy Share Image
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Have you seen how fish are able to swim in a school so precisely relating to their fish-fellows and never clumsily bump… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
it is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. ... Pour out the dull things on… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I like to study the question or the problem or the opportunity in hand, work with the team to come with the… — Michael Corbat Copy Share Image
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me. — Jamie Sives Copy Share Image
Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it rained, but mostly it was just dull, a land without shadows. It was like living inside Tupperware.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“A mind is only as sharp as the knife, that strives to cut through thoughts too tough for the blade, before it… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing… — Magha Copy Share Image
I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
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