Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to… — Joline Godfrey Copy Share Image
Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love… — Carl Friedrich von Rumohr Copy Share Image
Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in a restaurant. You get to meet new people all the time and constantly socialize. There are no… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though… — Inez Haynes Irwin 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 worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
