Quotes and Sayings About Dull
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
-- A. A. GillSource : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
-- A. E. Housman -
I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
-- A. P. Herbert -
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press
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What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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"Exciting" is a dull world to describe the wrestling business.
-- Alexander Nderitu -
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
-- Alexander Pope -
No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions
-- Anne Rice -
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Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
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.
-- Barbara Bush -
[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.
-- Barbara Stanwyck -
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I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.
-- Ben ShahnSource : Ben Shahn (1972). “Ben Shahn”
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There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
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Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
Too much shine, can dull the soul
-- Big K.R.I.T.Source : FaceBook post by Big K.R.I.T. from Feb 17, 2014
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Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.
-- Bruce TateSource : Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland (2004). “Better, Faster, Lighter Java”, p.31, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
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One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.
-- Bruno Schulz -
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
-- Bryan ProcterSource : Bryan Waller Procter, “The Sea”
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Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson -
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
-- Caitlin Moran -
Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.
-- Cedric Price -
It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
-- Charles Bukowski -
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
-- Charles Darwin -
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Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
-- Charles de Lint -
Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.
-- Charles de Lint