Dull Quotes

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

Being on a Michael Bay set is... well, it's the only set I've ever been on. But I would imagine there's no set that's run quite like it. It's big, it's loud, it's powerful, it's intense, it's dirty, it's hot, it's sweaty - and it's really exciting. There's never a dull moment; there's never a quiet moment.

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

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

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

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

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

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

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

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

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

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

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

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

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.