Dull Quotes
903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors
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I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
— Bryan Procter
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"It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together…
— Unknown Author
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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
— Oscar Wilde
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More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing…
— Dan Bern
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What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
— Mary Mapes Dodge
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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on…
— Clifton Fadiman
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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the…
— Mark Twain
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Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're…
— Rolf Potts
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Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
— Horace Kephart
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A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
— Clifton Fadiman
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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at…
— Rowan Atkinson
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An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
— Shirley MacLaine
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I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking…
— Buster Keaton
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Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always…
— Marilyn Monroe
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It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.
— Tom Jones
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I am not an alcoholic. I'm a social catalyst. People pay me to illustrate for other partygoers the chemical process involved in transforming from one…
— Josh Kilmer-Purcell
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When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say…
— Yvonne Craig
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Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it…
— Unknown Author
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They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood…
— Poppy Z. Brite
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However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight…
— John Ruskin
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I find it dull when my heart meets my mind
— Laura Marling
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Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?
— Thomas Gray
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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