I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things. — Jerry Robinson Copy Share Image
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing… — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts. — Irma S. Rombauer Copy Share Image
Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst… — Lucy Prebble Copy Share Image
I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Mahmoud Darwish wrote that "extreme clarity is a mystery." That sounds right to me. I don't want anyone hunting for anything ancillary… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
We all know conflict sells. Click-culture bolsters extremist stories and brands moderates as dull and dispassionate. — Jessica Tarlov Copy Share Image
I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“That will just do for me, you know. I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The universe is a giant mind. Some people have the ability to tap into that mind, we call them psychic. Others don't,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show… — Roone Arledge 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
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. — John Donne Copy Share Image
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
The Lilly girl is always full of surprises. She lives everyday like it's a celebration, never has a dull moment, and makes… — Lilly Pulitzer Copy Share Image
We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Overhead the sky was dull and cloudless, a bland impassive blue, more the interior ceiling of some deep irrevocable psychosis than the… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says,… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image