Dull Quotes - Page 8

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little rent Than the dull monarch of a continent; Without this bounty which the gods bestow, Can Fortune make one favorite happy? No.

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size

I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so.

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.