Quotes of: Dull Keyword

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Mark Twain

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

William J. Clinton

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

Dominic Cooper

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

Bryan Procter

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.

Martin Seligman

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Charles de Lint

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

Matt Lucas

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

Edward Albee

Jack Torrance: [typed] All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The Shining

Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

Adam McKay

Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Aphra Behn

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Vance Havner

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

Wyndham Lewis

Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

John James Audubon

Birds and periodic blood. Old recapitulations. The fox, panting, fire-eyed, gone to earth in my chest. How beautiful we are, he and I, with our auburn pelts, our trails of blood, our miracle escapes, our whiplash panic flogging us on to new miracles!...

Leaflets

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

Ender's Game

I prefer the keen edge of truth to the dull comfort of lies.

A Bed of Thorns and Roses

If ye canna see the bright side o' life, polish the dull side

Some Enchanted Evening

The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.

Sweet Tooth