Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down]… — Alice Munro
If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one. — Shelley Shepard Gray
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves. — William Hazlitt
A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began… — Henry David Thoreau
Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting. — Derren Brown
I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they… — Nina Bawden
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs. — Mario Cuomo
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is… — Seneca the Younger
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts,… — Pearl S. Buck
Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of… — Emma Lazarus
And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short… — William Styron
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and… — Camille Paglia
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do? — Mark Twain
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be… — Elwyn Brooks White
Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His… — James Russell Lowell
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be… — George Bernard Shaw
Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull… — Steve Albini
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough… — Eric Hoffer
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. — Oscar Wilde
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it,… — Henry Beston
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. — Robert Breault
Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain. — Beth Moore
The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and… — Samuel Johnson

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