Dull Quotes - Page 2

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

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

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

If Christianity is dull and boring, if it is a burden and not a blessing, then most likely we are involved in a project, not a Person - a system not a Savior, rules rather than a relationship.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.

We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.

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.

The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.