Quotes of: Dullness Keyword

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

Andre Gide

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives.

Anne Enright

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Damien Hirst

If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.

Satin Island

How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.

The Name of the Rose

I came to see you two-" Words could not express the dull pain of these things.

Lord of the Flies

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

The Thorn Birds

When your bright future, becomes a dull regret of the past, take a deep breath and move on.

Kendal Rob

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Marilyn Monroe

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Thomas Perry

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferber

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

Martha Washington

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

Jerry Robinson

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

Natalie Dormer

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

Billy Collins

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Colonel Saito: All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

The Bridge on the River Kwai