Dull Quotes

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

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

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

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

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

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

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony If anyone's gotony.

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

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

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

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

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

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

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.

Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

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 of political indifference.

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

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

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

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

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

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

The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and gives us the lands beyond.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

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

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

A life lived in love will never be dull.

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

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.

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

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

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

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

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

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

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

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