Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and… — Gabrielle Zevin
She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. — Kurt Vonnegut
The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy… — Tom Robbins
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in… — John Green
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of… — William Shakespeare
This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus… — E. Nesbit
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read… — Susanna Clarke
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and… — Tom Robbins
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. — Arthur C. Clarke
GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and… — Mary Oliver
My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of… — Peter Kropotkin
She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to… — Ayn Rand
The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own,… — Brandon Mull
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore… — Douglas Adams
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. — William Wordsworth
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very… — Leo Tolstoy
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. — H. L. Mencken
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may… — Joseph Conrad
Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life… — Lewis Carroll
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. — Bill Watterson
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.… — Diane Setterfield
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own… — Thomas Lynch
For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like… — William S. Burroughs
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers… — William Styron

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