Top 1200 Dull Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

I never want things to be dull.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

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

I'm actually a rather dull man.

The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

I'm not very good at being dull.

I'm a dull person.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

I'm so hyper. (said with a very dull voice>

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

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

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

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

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

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

A lot of guys man, they are dull and dry.

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

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

I'm dull.

Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

My main influences - I loved art. I sounds a little pretentious to say I was into art but I liked drawing. I liked music; music was my outlet from day one. I was giving you an image of Ireland being this dull, grey, massive unemployment, not much going on and the future was the dull queue or - and, for me, the window of hope was music and books. So I fell in love with sort of T-Rex and David Bowie very young. They sort of said, "Hey. You don't have to live in this north side of Dublin that's all grey and depressed. You can be a spider and go to Mars."

The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

Bios are always so dull and boring.

He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man that would ride full gallop whose horse will hardly trot. Now the desire of his mind is not to be judged of by the slow pace of the dull jade he rides on, but by the hitching and kicking and spurring as he sits on his back. Thy flesh is like this dull jade, it will not gallop after Christ, it will be backward though thy soul and heaven lie at stake.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Being successful is kind of dull.

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

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

How dull it is to have people defining you.

Touring can be quite a dull life.

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

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

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Too much shine, can dull the soul

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

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

I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story you can write. See how dull you can be. Go ahead. That would be fun and interesting. I will give you ten dollars if you can write something thoroughly dull from beginning to end!" And of course, no one can.

A laugh lifestyle is predicated upon our attitude toward the daily stuff of life. When those tasks seem too dull to endure, figure out a way to make them fun; get creative and entertain yourself. If the stuff of life for you right now is not dull and boring but instead painful and overwhelming, find something in the midst of the pain that makes you smile or giggle anyway. There's always something somewhere. . . even if you have to just pretend to laugh until you really do!

But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull old here-today-gone-tomorrow scene... Shakespeare, Milton, Matthew Arnold, even Baudelaire, even this cat whoever he was that wrote Beowulf... the same scene for the same reasons and to the same end, whether it was Dante with his pit or Baudelaire with his pot... the same dull old scene...

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

Never a dull moment in MMA, right?

A lot of people have tried to dull my light.

What is known for certain is dull.

I find it dull when my heart meets my mind

Life would be dull without them.

To make dictionaries is dull work.

Dull winter will re-appear.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.

Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.

I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.