Dull Quotes - Page 6

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

It does not bother me that some say I'm dull and boring because the people that do know me will tell you a different story. It is very difficult to be open with people you don't know. There is nothing I can do about the fact that the real me does not get across and it is probably difficult to know the real me.

An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.

How peaceful life would be without love. How safe, how tranquil and how dull.

Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull.

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

Dullness is a misdemeanour.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

you are on the freeway threading through traffic now, moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch the radio on and get Mozart, which is something, and you will somehow get through the slow days and the busy days and the dull days and the hateful days and the rare days, all both so delightful and so disappointing because we are all so alike and so different.