Dull Quotes

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  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.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Self Esteem, Women

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• It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

  H. L. Mencken

  Faith, Men, Doubt And Certainty

  H.L. Mencken (1920). “Prejudices Second Series”

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

  Richard Steele

  Design, Paper, Dullness

  'The Tatler' no. 38 (7 July 1709)

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• If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

  Christina Dodd

  Sides, Polish, Ifs

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• People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

  Joseph Addison

  Kindness, Men, Nodding

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.160

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• 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.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Understanding, Literature, Loyal

  Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.205, Broadview Press

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• 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

  Thinking, Perfect, Different

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

  Thom Filicia

  Tacky, Boring, Tragic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Age, Scratches

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Stupid, Successful, Science

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• In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it.

  Roger Bacon

  Math, Men, Intellectual

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• All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

  Hill Harper

  Boys, Play, Forensics

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

  Thomas Perry

  Patience, Reading, Hard Work

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

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• 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

  Genius, Danger, Wells

  1965 Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists.

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• 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.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Life, Hate, Water

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.2, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock.

  Chris Brown

  Girl, Dating, Jocks

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  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

  Lonely, Past, People

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• Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, Literature, Habit

  "Point Counter Point". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.

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• What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

  Walter Scott

  Women, Diaries, Treasure

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• I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Memories, Son, Two

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

  Martha Washington

  Thinking, Dull Life, States

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• Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

  Earl Weaver

  Winning, Pitching, Likes

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Philadelphia, Next, Jersey

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