Dull Quotes

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

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.

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

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

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

Being on a Michael Bay set is... well, it's the only set I've ever been on. But I would imagine there's no set that's run quite like it. It's big, it's loud, it's powerful, it's intense, it's dirty, it's hot, it's sweaty - and it's really exciting. There's never a dull moment; there's never a quiet moment.

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

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

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

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

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

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

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

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

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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