Dull Quotes - Page 10

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.

How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.

When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything.

I'm not very good at being dull.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Steve Trevor was dull and boring and I didn't like him much so I disposed of him.

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.

To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

Dullness is a kind of luxury.

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.