Dull Quotes

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.

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

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

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.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

The dull and stupid have a much easier time of it.

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

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

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

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.

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

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

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

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

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

I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.

It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.

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

I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.

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

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

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

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

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.

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

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

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.