Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as… — Mark Twain
I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every… — Bobby Fischer
The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in… — Samuel L. Jackson
Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next… — H. L. Mencken
The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how… — Charles Bukowski
Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they… — Cedric Price
I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make… — John N. Bahcall
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is,… — G. H. Hardy
Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or piffling answers. It… — Peter Medawar
Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is very black near… — William Dampier
There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the people who accomplished… — Benjamin Franklin
Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light… — Charles Dickens
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed… — Stephen Jay Gould
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for… — Joseph Addison
If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is… — Watchman Nee
You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know… — Terry Pratchett
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of similar universes... Familiarity… — Heber Doust Curtis
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not… — Morris Kline
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a… — Max Nordau
The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa — Kirby Larson
Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done… — Harold Nicolson
What a dull world if we knew all about geese! — Aldo Leopold
I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree. — Bobby Fischer
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all… — Jane Jacobs
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither… — Margaret Cavendish

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