Until you, I didn't consider my past as an issue. Yes, it affected certain ways I did things, but everything had its… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I think the most takes I've ever done would probably be maybe 10, on like a big studio movie where you can… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, But… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Like any good drug, anger can mask all reality. But anger is not an easy emotion to call up on demand, which… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can't find anything that interests me… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book… All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The characters are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of those movies whose existence is… — Kyle Smith Copy Share Image
No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay… — Thomas Ken Copy Share Image
Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. “They’re anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
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