Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. — James D. Watson
"Exciting" is a dull world to describe the wrestling business. — Alexander Nderitu
We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after… — Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility.… — Bob Proctor
The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting. — Richard M. Nixon
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly… — Samuel Johnson
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are… — Ernest Hemingway
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the… — Jean-Georges Noverre
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at… — Martha Graham
Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment… — Frederick Douglass
You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better… — David Ogilvy
Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and… — Sylvia Plath
The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness,… — Alexander McCall Smith
There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if… — Graham Swift
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and… — Sarah Ruhl
Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often… — Jerome Bruner
Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice.… — Thomas Ken
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent… — David Riesman
I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance… — William Lyon Phelps
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense,… — Paul Verlaine
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. — Edward Albee
I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we… — Stephen Jay Gould
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of… — Oswald Spengler
All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover… — John Harvey Kellogg
The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most advertisements… — David Ogilvy

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