Dull Quotes - Page 14

• I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.

  Anderson Cooper

  Couple, School, Kids

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• Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge

  Robyn Dawes

  Cute, Fall, Dull Life

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• The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

  Bertrand Russell

  Faith, Wise, Doubt

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• The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, Boredom, Mind

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• It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, People, Made

  "Homme alone 2" by David Keeps, Details magazine, December 1992.

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• I'm not very good at being dull.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Very Good

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• I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

  Sylvia Plath

  Christmas, Way, Carols

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.47, Hamilton Books

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• You must not think
  That we are made of stuff so fat and dull
  That we can let our beard be shook with danger
  And think it pastime.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Thinking, Stuff

  William Shakespeare (1850). “Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon”, p.16

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• A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Brain, Muse

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.285, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Present joys are more to flesh and blood
  Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Determination, Blood

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 364

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• You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes things so dead and dull. Marriage takes all surprise and wonder away. Marriage makes you take your wife for granted, your husband for granted. What is the need to look at your wife? She will be there tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and forever. You look at people when you know you may not be able to look at them again. Marriage kills; it makes something tremendously beautiful very ugly.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Beautiful, Husband

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• I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Memories, Writing

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• 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.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Romantic, Travel, Fabulous

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Turkish Embassy Letters”, p.115, Ravenio Books

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• O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  May, Praying, Inspired

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.101

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• Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Vision, Quiet

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• Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

  Susan Sontag

  Loss, Culture, Modern Life

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Self Esteem, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “On Reading: From "Walden"”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.

  Tom Robbins

  Breakup, Passion, Eye

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.161, Bantam

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• He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Art, Strong

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

  Charles Churchill

  Stupid, Reading, Skulls

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.20

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• Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stupid, People, Firsts

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Peter Bell The Third”

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• For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lasts, Politician, Newspapers

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Adventure, Dull Life, Should

  A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.525, Simon and Schuster

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• It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out us out of touch with life; too much free time and dull the edge of the soul. We need sometimes to come very near the bone so tha we can taste the marrow of life, rather than its superfluities.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Appreciation, Clothes, Soul

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• Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Men, Dumb

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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