Dull Quotes - Page 12

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.

You travel with a whetstone on your arm? (Kiara) You don’t ever want to kill someone with a dull knife. It takes too long to sever their arteries, or puncture organs, and it makes it even messier than normal. (Nykyrian)

If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.

Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

Life would be dull without them.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.

Being successful is kind of dull.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.