“He realizes he doesn't want to play this game, once so familiar to him. He has no interest in trading barbs. He… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca.… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You've got to deal with the world with all of its troubles, while you've still got this alternate image. It's not about… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or… — Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Copy Share Image
Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun… — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted… — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the… — Indra Devi Copy Share Image
This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see… — Ji Lee Copy Share Image
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a… — Archibald Hill Copy Share Image
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I like the color of the Caribbean." I paused and absorbed the warmth of her smile before adding, "Dogs, not cats. Boxers,… — Anne Greenwood Brown Copy Share Image
Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe The latter would probably be a reasonable way of life… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should,… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though… — Inez Haynes Irwin Copy Share Image
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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