It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and… — Stella Gibbons 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
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
The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or… — Steven Pinker 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
They are friends; and friendly they guide him to prey Yet never partake of the treat Eyes and brains to the dotard… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I like my life dull.' 'If you like your life dull, then that can only mean that you do not understand the… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Grown-up parties are so dull they make me want to throw a tantrum and hurl red wine on the nearest cream-damask armchair. — Claudia Winkleman Copy Share Image
Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“The one who gets you is the one who makes you forget you ever desired anything as dull and ridiculous as perfection.” — Carla Neggers Copy Share Image
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers.… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same -… — Earl Weaver Copy Share Image
When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh, for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh,… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest… — Alexis Soyer Copy Share Image
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be,… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
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