Dull Quotes - Page 18

• Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.

  Horace Kephart

  Knives, Use, Made

  Horace Kephart (1922). “Camping”

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• A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Food, Cheesy, Cooking

  Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

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• An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.

  Shirley MacLaine

  People, Actors, Said

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

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• I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

  Buster Keaton

  Sorry, Hard Work, Mean

  Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Party, Idols

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.153, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I am not an alcoholic. I'm a social catalyst. People pay me to illustrate for other partygoers the chemical process involved in transforming from one persona into another drunker, more fun one. It's a matter of going from dull point A to exciting point B. And I'm a raving success at it. So successful that sometimes I wind up at Mysterious Point C.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Fun, Successful, Wind

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• Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and
  that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of
  it myself.

  Groucho Marx

  Dirty, Thinking, Stories

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

  Yvonne Craig

  Couple, Light, Long

  "R.I.P. Yvonne Craig, TV's Batgirl and Star Trek guest star" by Mike Vanderbilt, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2015.

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• Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.

  Ina Coolbrith

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Pain, Heart, Discovery

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• However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

  John Ruskin

  Pain, Effort, May

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I find it dull when my heart meets my mind

  Laura Marling

  Heart, Mind, My Heart

  Song: My Manic and I, Album: Alas I Cannot Swim, 2008

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• Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

  Thomas Gray

  Dust, Voice, Honor

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.41-4.

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• A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Errors, May

  Oliver Goldsmith (1806). “The Vicar of Wakefield”, p.13

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• History has to live with what was here,
  clutching and close to fumbling all we had -
  it is so dull and gruesome how we die,
  unlike writing, life never finishes.

  Robert Lowell

  Writing, Dies, Writing Life

  Robert Lowell (2017). “New Selected Poems”, p.145, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mind, Mathematical, Intuitive

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Reality, Facts, Canvas

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• If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

  Ian MacKaye

  Rebel, Want, Blades

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• History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Book, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.25, Graphic Arts Books

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• For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Practice, People, Training

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• Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Littles, Energy

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.343, Random House

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• Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

  Ann Patchett

  Party, Long, Dinner

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.216, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Fighting, Bait, Would Be

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• Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Educational, Bureaucracy

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.109, Penguin

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• Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

  David Almond

  Book, Writing, Cat

  David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.7, Hachette UK

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