Dull Quotes
903 quotes by 659 authors
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].
— Nora Roberts
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Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it.
— Doug Sanders
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I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have…
— Adolf Hitler
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
— John Henry Newman
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
— C.S. Lewis
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
— Samuel Johnson
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The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion…
— Albert Einstein
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There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're…
— Tom Peters
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only…
— Alexander Pope
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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
— Oscar Wilde
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Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor…
— Sterling W Sill
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For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which…
— Carl Sagan
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it…
— Isaac Asimov
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School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only…
— John Taylor Gatto
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What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.
— Bertrand Russell
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Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of…
— Nora Roberts
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