Quotes about Dull

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. Votes: 4

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. Votes: 4

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else. Votes: 4

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Votes: 4

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. Votes: 4

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. Votes: 4

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 is never dull. Votes: 4

Dull winter will re-appear. Votes: 3

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical. Votes: 3

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don't Dull The Blade Votes: 3

Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting. Votes: 3

Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast. Votes: 3

The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy. Votes: 3

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. Votes: 3

In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise! Votes: 3

My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true. Votes: 3

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed. Votes: 3

Never dull your shine for somebody else. Votes: 2

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. Votes: 2

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out. Votes: 2

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. Votes: 2

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. Votes: 2

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out. Votes: 2

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. Votes: 2

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy. Votes: 2

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. Votes: 2

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying. Votes: 2

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating. Votes: 2

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. Votes: 2

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life. Votes: 2

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. Votes: 2

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. Votes: 2

If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face. Votes: 2

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full. Votes: 2

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. Votes: 2

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side. Votes: 2

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull. Votes: 2

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. Votes: 2

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. Votes: 2

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. Votes: 2

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. Votes: 2

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. Votes: 2

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. Votes: 2

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. Votes: 2

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. Votes: 2

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 to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. Votes: 2

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull. Votes: 2

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. Votes: 2

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 soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Votes: 2

I can't remember a time when I didn't love fashion. As a child, I was always particular about what I'd wear. I remember feeling most aggrieved that I had to put on a dull uniform to go to boarding school. Votes: 2

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty. Votes: 2

I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. Votes: 2

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. Votes: 2

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? Votes: 2

A dull ax never loves grindstones. Votes: 0

Psychological knowledge has made us dull. Votes: 0

To make dictionaries is dull work. Votes: 0

Being successful is kind of dull. Votes: 0

Life would be dull without them. Votes: 0

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull. Votes: 0

What is known for certain is dull. Votes: 0

Too much shine, can dull the soul Votes: 0

Baseball is dull only to dull minds. Votes: 0

I'm not very good at being dull. Votes: 0

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain. Votes: 0

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. Votes: 0

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Votes: 0

The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers. Votes: 0

Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches. Votes: 0

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten. Votes: 0

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated. Votes: 0

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger. Votes: 0

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull. Votes: 0

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching. Votes: 0

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. Votes: 0

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times. Votes: 0

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist. Votes: 0

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons! Votes: 0

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting. Votes: 0

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. Votes: 0

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed Votes: 0

A story about my life would be utterly dull. Votes: 0

A life lived in love will never be dull. Votes: 0

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it ... Votes: 0

I'm so hyper. (said with a very dull voice> Votes: 0

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech. Votes: 0

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out Votes: 0

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. Votes: 0

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull. Votes: 0

I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people. Votes: 0

I find it dull when my heart meets my mind Votes: 0

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Votes: 0

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions. Votes: 0

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation Votes: 0

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers. Votes: 0

"Exciting" is a dull world to describe the wrestling business. Votes: 0

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. Votes: 0

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Votes: 0

I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions. Votes: 0

I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils. Votes: 0

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them. Votes: 0

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. Votes: 0

What a dull world if we knew all about geese! Votes: 0

Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull. Votes: 0

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals? Votes: 0

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy! Votes: 0

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ... Votes: 0

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous. Votes: 0

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity. Votes: 0

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work. Votes: 0

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly. Votes: 0

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky. Votes: 0

Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits. Votes: 0

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. Votes: 0

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. Votes: 0

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull. Votes: 0

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. Votes: 0

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds. Votes: 0

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence. Votes: 0

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning. Votes: 0

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. Votes: 0

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull, Votes: 0

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Votes: 0

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious. Votes: 0

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. Votes: 0

It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull. Votes: 0

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness. Votes: 0

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. Votes: 0

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats. Votes: 0

Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. Votes: 0

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion. Votes: 0

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools. Votes: 0

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull. Votes: 0

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death. Votes: 0

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull Votes: 0

Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning. Votes: 0

Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice. Votes: 0

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. Votes: 0

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. Votes: 0

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves. Votes: 0

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull. Votes: 0

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. Votes: 0

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots. Votes: 0

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. Votes: 0

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. Votes: 0

I prefer the keen edge of truth to the dull comfort of lies. Votes: 0

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. Votes: 0

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull. Votes: 0

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain. Votes: 0

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. Votes: 0

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection. Votes: 0

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. Votes: 0

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. Votes: 0

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. Votes: 0

If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side. Votes: 0

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent. Votes: 0

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions. Votes: 0

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. Votes: 0

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart. Votes: 0

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world. Votes: 0

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age. Votes: 0

An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself. Votes: 0

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. Votes: 0

The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting. Votes: 0

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull Votes: 0

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start Votes: 0

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop. Votes: 0

A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers. Votes: 0

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem". Votes: 0

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at? Votes: 0

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other. Votes: 0

Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house. Votes: 0

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ. Votes: 0

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. Votes: 0

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around. Votes: 0

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met. Votes: 0

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement. Votes: 0

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. Votes: 0

Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. Votes: 0

How peaceful life would be without love. How safe, how tranquil and how dull. Votes: 0

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing Votes: 0

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. Votes: 0

Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised. Votes: 0

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them. Votes: 0

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books. Votes: 0

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart. Votes: 0

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom. Votes: 0

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great. Votes: 0

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. Votes: 0

The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling. Votes: 0

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances. Votes: 0

Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives. Votes: 0

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. Votes: 0

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. Votes: 0

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes. Votes: 0

It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice Votes: 0

Too often our visions of the futureare dull and impotentlike a hammer beating the water. Votes: 0

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. Votes: 0

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. Votes: 0

According to legend. Telford is so dull that the by-pass was built before the town. Votes: 0

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. Votes: 0

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one. Votes: 0

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often. Votes: 0

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. Votes: 0

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy. Votes: 0

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people. Votes: 0

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull. Votes: 0

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds. Votes: 0

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid. Votes: 0

It's not the gentle part I have a problem with, it's the dull, stupid part. Votes: 0

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it? Votes: 0

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it. Votes: 0

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. Votes: 0

I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull. Votes: 0

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. Votes: 0

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live. Votes: 0

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow Votes: 0

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. Votes: 0

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring. Votes: 0

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring... Votes: 0

If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else. Votes: 0

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? Votes: 0

If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one. Votes: 0

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. Votes: 0

If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message. Votes: 0

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas. Votes: 0

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. Votes: 0

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull? Votes: 0

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. Votes: 0

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow. Votes: 0

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back. Votes: 0

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. Votes: 0

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. Votes: 0

In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. Votes: 0

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good. Votes: 0

Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays give me the taste and the dressing Votes: 0

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. Votes: 0

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing Votes: 0

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull. Votes: 0

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy. Votes: 0

Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing. Votes: 0

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull. Votes: 0

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. Votes: 0

The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake. Votes: 0

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. Votes: 0

A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading. Votes: 0

Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth. Votes: 0

There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them. Votes: 0

[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella. Votes: 0

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. Votes: 0

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. Votes: 0

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying! Votes: 0

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain. Votes: 0

I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life. Votes: 0

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne. Votes: 0

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. Votes: 0

Steve Trevor was dull and boring and I didn't like him much so I disposed of him. Votes: 0

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life. Votes: 0

We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull. Votes: 0

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one. Votes: 0

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. Votes: 0

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. Votes: 0

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible! Votes: 0

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body. Votes: 0

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. Votes: 0

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree. Votes: 0

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve. Votes: 0

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull. Votes: 0

Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for. Votes: 0

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently. Votes: 0

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. Votes: 0

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story. Votes: 0

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are. Votes: 0

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject. Votes: 0

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it. Votes: 0

The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right? Votes: 0

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does. Votes: 0

Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. Votes: 0

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. Votes: 0

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley. Votes: 0

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain. Votes: 0

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.... Votes: 0

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. Votes: 0

There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it. Votes: 0

She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years. Votes: 0

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace. Votes: 0

How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible Votes: 0

A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously. Votes: 0

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams. Votes: 0

There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark. Votes: 0

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. Votes: 0

She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years. Votes: 0

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull. Votes: 0

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull. Votes: 0

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. Votes: 0

we live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving ... Votes: 0

It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. Votes: 0

A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way. Votes: 0

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. Votes: 0

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull! Votes: 0

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated. Votes: 0

Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. Votes: 0

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Votes: 0

I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win. Votes: 0

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. Votes: 0

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? Votes: 0

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven. Votes: 0

The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world. Votes: 0

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity. Votes: 0

I'm not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness. Votes: 0

Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. Votes: 0

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me. Votes: 0

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull. Votes: 0

Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice. Votes: 0

I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen Votes: 0

Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts. Votes: 0

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. Votes: 0

Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself. Votes: 0

Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts. Votes: 0

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry. Votes: 0

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting. Votes: 0

He was my reason for existence,Descended from my cherished dreamInto my human dull subsistence,An angel, sacred and supreme! Votes: 0

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact. Votes: 0

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system. Votes: 0

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse. Votes: 0

As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human. Votes: 0

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull. Votes: 0

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. Votes: 0

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man. Votes: 0

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man. Votes: 0

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. Votes: 0

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest. Votes: 0

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. Votes: 0

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect. Votes: 0

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them. Votes: 0

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her Votes: 0

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams. Votes: 0

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. Votes: 0

If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring. Votes: 0

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned. Votes: 0

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background. Votes: 0

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy. Votes: 0

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little. Votes: 0

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. Votes: 0

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English. Votes: 0

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know. Votes: 0

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. Votes: 0

By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there. Votes: 0

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Votes: 0

People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. Votes: 0

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies! Votes: 0

The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm. Votes: 0

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs. Votes: 0

But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain. Votes: 0

This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously. Votes: 0

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. Votes: 0

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real. Votes: 0

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. Votes: 0

She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality. Votes: 0

Without a little chaos life will be dull, unbeautiful, for we have been trained not to align with simplicity for too long. Votes: 0

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious. Votes: 0

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry. Votes: 0

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews. Votes: 0

When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything. Votes: 0

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. Votes: 0

Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special. Votes: 0

Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment! Votes: 0

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain. Votes: 0

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree. Votes: 0

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. Votes: 0

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. Votes: 0

So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain.... Votes: 0

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against. Votes: 0

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing. Votes: 0

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now. Votes: 0

Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes. Votes: 0

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character. Votes: 0

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things. Votes: 0

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. Votes: 0

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia. Votes: 0

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves. Votes: 0

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Votes: 0

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting. Votes: 0

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed. Votes: 0

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference. Votes: 0

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings. Votes: 0

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. Votes: 0

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do? Votes: 0

The palm of his hand was a dull red. Not a good sign.I jerk off left-handed, he thought, at least that's something." Votes: 0

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it. Votes: 0

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull. Votes: 0

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial. Votes: 0

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul. Votes: 0

Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest. Votes: 0

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail. Votes: 0

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. Votes: 0

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone. Votes: 0

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. Votes: 0

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. Votes: 0

The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness. Votes: 0

Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock. Votes: 0

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence. Votes: 0

Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass. Votes: 0

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? Votes: 0

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa Votes: 0

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware. Votes: 0

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. Votes: 0

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. Votes: 0

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about. Votes: 0

When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever! Votes: 0

Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years. Votes: 0

It [Dr Phil] was great. We had such a good time. Never a dull moment on set, considering the 18 kids. It never got boring. Votes: 0

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. Votes: 0

I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work. Votes: 0

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it. Votes: 0

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull. Votes: 0

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss. Votes: 0

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things. Votes: 0

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is. Votes: 0

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work. Votes: 0

Show me a person who has nothing to hide, and I'll show you a person who is either exceedingly dull - or a complete exhibitionist Votes: 0

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. Votes: 0

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow. Votes: 0

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. Votes: 0

To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. Votes: 0

O, pleasant is the welcome kiss When day's dull round is o'er; And sweet the music of the step That meets us at the door. Votes: 0

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos. Votes: 0

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession. Votes: 0

Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks! Votes: 0

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. Votes: 0

Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh, for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh, to bitterest dust. Votes: 0

A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid. Votes: 0

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses. Votes: 0

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring. Votes: 0

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. Votes: 0

Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union. Votes: 0

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them. Votes: 0

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life. Votes: 0

Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats. Votes: 0

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. Votes: 0

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 flame! Votes: 0

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 day. Votes: 0

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence. Votes: 0

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. Votes: 0

I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant. Votes: 0

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull? Votes: 0

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull. Votes: 0

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn. Votes: 0

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see. Votes: 0

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. Votes: 0

For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull. Votes: 0

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound. Votes: 0

The Lilly girl is always full of surprises. She lives everyday like it's a celebration, never has a dull moment, and makes every hour a happy hour. Votes: 0

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise. Votes: 0

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 of love. Votes: 0

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right. Votes: 0

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it. Votes: 0

Sister Simplicitie! Sing, sing a song to me,-- Sing me to sleep! Some legend low and long, Slow as the summer song Of the dull Deep. Votes: 0

In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks. Votes: 0

And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway? Votes: 0

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one. Votes: 0

My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead. Votes: 0

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime. Votes: 0

I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused. Votes: 0

And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee. Votes: 0

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be. Votes: 0

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. Votes: 0

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!' Votes: 0

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. Votes: 0

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score. Votes: 0

The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life. Votes: 0

[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. Votes: 0

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it. Votes: 0

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder. Votes: 0

But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone. Votes: 0

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance. Votes: 0

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense. Votes: 0

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all. Votes: 0

Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself. Votes: 0

There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep. Votes: 0

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. Votes: 0

At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played. Votes: 0

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read. Votes: 0

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you! Votes: 0

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out. Votes: 0

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 moon is likely to be dull. Votes: 0

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 would be too dull to read. Votes: 0

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Votes: 0

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. Votes: 0

What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive? Votes: 0