Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical. — Blaise Pascal
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands… — Wassily Kandinsky
If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade — Ian MacKaye
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. — Raymond Chandler
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of… — Thomas M. Disch
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds… — Jane Jacobs
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — F. H. Bradley
Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and… — Ann Patchett
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be… — Alan Sillitoe
Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. — Frank Herbert
Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal… — David Almond
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may… — Sinclair Lewis
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen… — Sinclair Lewis
Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one… — Sinclair Lewis
Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what… — Beryl Markham
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to… — Oscar Wilde
She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year… — Gene Kelly
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. — Stephen King
My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. — Albert Camus
There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you… — Thomas Sowell
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are… — H. L. Mencken
Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully… — Gautama Buddha
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had… — Plato

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