Dull Quotes · Page 43

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow…

— Joseph Hall

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.

— Keren Woodward

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

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

— Ian MacKaye

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of…

— Anonymous

Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it…

— Anonymous

But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull…

— Ken Kesey

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under…

— Emile Zola

When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time…

— Alexey Brodovitch

Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to…

— Leo Tolstoy

For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away,…

— Eric Weiner

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

— John Oldham

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

— Hill Harper

He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty…

— Mike Leigh

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form…

— Charles Bukowski

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.…

— Jane Austen

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

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,…

— Oscar Wilde

We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than…

— Larry Crabb

The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because…

— Alexander McCall Smith