Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. — Mark Twain
I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else. — Martha Washington
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly… — James D. Watson
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching. — Earl Weaver
I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort… — Betty White
Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. — Robert Anton Wilson
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life… — Oprah Winfrey
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the… — Virginia Woolf
My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a… — William Butler Yeats
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. — Mao Zedong
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. — Oscar Wilde
The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be… — Arnold Bennett
The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had… — Hunter S. Thompson
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? — James Joyce
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest… — Marianne Williamson
It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it. — Charles Bukowski
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can… — Spencer W. Kimball
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp… — W. S. Gilbert
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept… — Edith Wharton
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick… — Charles Dickens
I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. — Diane Setterfield
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for… — Daniel Handler

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