Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.” — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. — Arthur C. Clarke 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
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 Copy Share Image
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull-… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication… Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths… But in… — Seneca the Younger 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
A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and… — Lloyd C. Douglas Copy Share Image
Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull.… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
