Dull Quotes - Page 4

Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.

Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Going back to Baltimore is awesome because all my friends still live there and there's never a dull moment when you're hanging out with your high-school friends.

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.

However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place?

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.

If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.