Dull Quotes

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock.

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

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

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

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

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

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

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.

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

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

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

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

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.