Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.” — Samuel Foote Copy Share Image
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style,… — Shirley Conran Copy Share Image
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able… — William James Copy Share Image
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind,… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
“Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration. — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a… — Adolph Saphir Copy Share Image
“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
