Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality. — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“I have three phobias which, could I mute them,would make my life as slick as a sonnet,but dull as ditch water:I hate… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but… — Alan Judd Copy Share Image
Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity without picturesqueness, and the grey sky, grey… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore.… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little… — John Armstrong 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
People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“This monotonous world around Seems boring, colorless, and dull. I just existed till I found You in my life which was banal.” — T.K. Varenko Copy Share Image
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate… — Natalie Morales Copy Share Image
You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is because they are not in the battle,… — George Verwer Copy Share Image
“For some there is no music No lights No fire No untamed madness that breathes life There is work Anguish Frustration Rage… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions… — Josef Sudek Copy Share Image
