“What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“[I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull.… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
