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Dull Quotes - Page 14

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: Novels Six Through Nine; Plus a Father Tim Novel”, p.454, Penguin

The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?

Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.157, Random House

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.382, Simon and Schuster

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.109, Penguin

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

"Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2011.

However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.

Edward Young, John Doran (1854). “The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran”, p.564

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.6, Canongate Books