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
If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free,… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I visited the set [of Allied] a few times, and it was a great set to visit. A lot of it was… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but… — John O'Donohue 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
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe;… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Everyone acknowledges that dinner parties are equally dull in London and Paris, in Calcutta and in New York, unless the next neighbour… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading. — Fairfax M. Cone Copy Share Image
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled… — John Milton Copy Share Image
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
“The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints—the ground’s too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I… — Ina Coolbrith Copy Share Image
How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Poor Hester, she was lying now, not crouching tense and watchful as she'd done all his adult life. And her beautiful gold-brown… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“People fall out of love slower than they fall in, to be sure, but there's the story no one wants to tell.… — Hellisen Cat Copy Share Image
But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now.… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said :… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“Whatever she is now she's better than she was," said Bedloe. "Being dead is better than being dull, being dead is better… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend,… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
![“I visited the set [of Allied] a few times, and it was a great set to visit. A lot of it was in West London, in an old Gillette factory. You'd go into the factory through the security, and then there were a lot of camels and goats. Most sets are really dull, but this was fantastic.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b30/steven-knight-2205_allied_i-visited-the-set-of-allied-a-few-times_2853397.jpg)
![“The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people aware of the depths of possibility in their hearts and lives; help them remove the barriers that keep them from being the people they were meant to be.” quote by John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c2a/john-o-donohue-1919_answers_the-idea-of-therapy-isn-t-to-give-people_2908134.jpg)
