Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Few subjects are inherently dull: language is where dullness or liveliness resides.” — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices. — David Levithan 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
“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.” — George Orwell 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
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
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
Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!” — Mehmet Murat ildan 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 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
When you look at the whole package of energy, the food you eat should match the story you want to live, which… — Deepak Chopra 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
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone.… — Ellen Glasgow 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
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the… — Wyndham Lewis 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
We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble,… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
“- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished.… — Maude Meagher 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
The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person… — Jaron Lanier 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 back, no telling oneself that this does not belong, or that. No hewing to the line. No cutting. No fear of letting the interest die. No wastebasket. How wonderful. And how dull!” quote by Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f06/mary-roberts-rinehart-4636_books_i-t-is-really-the-ponderous-books-which_2801077.jpg)
