Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would… — Daniel Day-Lewis
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? — Charles de Lint
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. — W. Somerset Maugham
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. — Karl Marx
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. — W. Somerset Maugham
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. — W. Somerset Maugham
I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty.… — Rachel McAdams
A story about my life would be utterly dull. — James McAvoy
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. — Marilyn Monroe
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll… — Ben Nicholas
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly… — David Nicholls
Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does. — Conor Oberst
I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a… — Anna Paquin
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. — John Dos Passos
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. — Herbert Read
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull… — Helen Rowland
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face. — Unknown Author
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable… — Walter Scott
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full. — Robert W. Service
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. — William Shakespeare
I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima… — Sylvester Stallone
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. — Gertrude Stein
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and… — Kristin Scott Thomas

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