Dull Quotes · Page 9

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your…

— Arnold Bennett

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all…

— John Buchan

“The path that leads to triumph is long, tedious, and crooked.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter…

— Frederick Lenz

Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like…

— Douglas Adams

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her…

— Christiaan Huygens

If I owned a Rembrandt and it had some dull colors, I don't think I'd go put reds and yellows in there…

— Ray Floyd

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

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

— H. L. Mencken

I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I…

— John Fowles

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

— Matthew Arnold

I won't do a movie that's dull.

— Mike Connors

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would…

— Marianne Williamson

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

— John Dryden

[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.

— Margaret Whiting

Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of…

— William Randolph Hearst

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

— Martha Washington

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

— William J. Clinton

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never…

— Alfred Hitchcock

Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.

— Devin Townsend

But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

— Salman Rushdie