Quotes of: Dullness Keyword

Emotions are the colors of the soul; they are spectacular and incredible. When you don't feel, the world becomes dull and colorless.

Wm. Paul Young

As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.

Clockwork Prince

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

The Dead

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

A Dictionary of Thought

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

Grendel

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

John Updike

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

2001: A Space Odyssey

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

41 Stories

Leave before I have to rip your eyes out with my dull Lady Bic razor.

How to Date a Vampire

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

The Red Headed League

Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

Minor Poems

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

The Name of the Wind

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

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Now, my intention was to drink just enough to dull the senses, but intentions should never be mixed with alcohol.

The Last Stop

Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.

Philosophical Uplifting Quotes volume 2

Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.

The Twelve Rooms of the Nile

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

The Thirteenth Tale

I am insatiable - aim to sate me but never dull my flames of desire that are fuelled by the existence of you.

Unrequited

It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

Rupert Graves

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Robert A. Heinlein

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Louis Auchincloss