Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

To make dictionaries is dull work. — Samuel Johnson
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. — John Milton
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart… — David Ogilvy
Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice. — Norman Mailer
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. — Konrad Lorenz
O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is… — Thomas Haynes Bayly
My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can`t find anything that interests me enough to go… — Angelina Jolie
If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message. — Robert Henri
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear… — Fulton J. Sheen
I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded… — Emily Carr
A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself. — Daniel Goleman
An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough… — Nelson Goodman
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity. — Kazimir Malevich
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is… — Walter J. Phillips
Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the… — James W. Loewen
Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed. — Robert Genn
I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is… — E. J. Hughes
You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. — Norman Vincent Peale
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. — Richard Steele
No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste;… — John Muir
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely… — Bayard Taylor
Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or… — Norman Vincent Peale
Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools. — Thiruvalluvar
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times… — Norman Vincent Peale

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