Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia.… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to… — David Riesman 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
Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar Copy Share Image
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but… — Alan Judd 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
As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull… — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
“The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time,… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas. — Sylvia Plath 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
