Dull Quotes

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

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.

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

I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.

It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.

I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

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

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

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

The dull and stupid have a much easier time of it.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

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

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

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.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.