Dull Quotes

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.

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

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 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.

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

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

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

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 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.