People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little. — James Hilton Copy Share Image
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights,… — Yvonne Craig Copy Share Image
I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I played sometimes about as dull as you can play it. I did things the right way, you know. I think I… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I'm not on Twitter because I'm worried I'd be really dull, which would be tragic for someone who's supposed to be funny. — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull-… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV… — Christopher Noxon Copy Share Image
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. — James Bridie Copy Share Image
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“There are people who say life is dull. Just a series of mundane events. But I can’t agree. Things happen. Bet on… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore… — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
