Dull Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

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?

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.

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

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 all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

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

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.

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

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

I'm really boring, man. Like, I'm really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it's pretty dull. But that's what I like.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

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

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

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

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

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 a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.