Dull Quotes · Page 46

I visited the set [of Allied] a few times, and it was a great set to visit. A lot of it was…

— Steven Knight

I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as…

— Charles Dickens

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

— Robert W. Service

[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to…

— Fran Lebowitz

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the…

— Indra Devi

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence…

— Julio Cortazar

As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the…

— David Swing

When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches,…

— Michael Chabon

The characters are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of those movies whose existence is…

— Kyle Smith

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

— Charles Bukowski

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

— Ben Shahn

But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace In that broad trim that hides thy sober face? Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice…

— George Crabbe

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog,…

— Hedy Lamarr

A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I…

— Ronald Frame

Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta…

— Dan Bern

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't…

— Brandon Sanderson

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

— Edward Abbey

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend,…

— Nina Bawden

I'm a very dull passenger. I don't speak. I don't have sex. No alcohol. I don't do drugs. The thing that I…

— Pedro Almodovar

Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.

— Sara Coleridge

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

— Laura Joh Rowland

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my…

— Mick Jagger

The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but…

— John O'Donohue