Dull Quotes - Page 5

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

A life lived in love will never be dull.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.