Dull Quotes - Page 37

• Sister Simplicitie!
  Sing, sing a song to me,--
  Sing me to sleep!
  Some legend low and long,
  Slow as the summer song
  Of the dull Deep.

  Sydney Thompson Dobell

  Summer, Song, Sleep

  Sydney Thompson Dobell, “Fragment Of A Sleep-Song”

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• Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

  Carol Tavris

  Book, Psychology, Research

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Funny, Health, Sleep

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• Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.

  Robert Denning

  Views, Rivers, East

  "The More the Merrier — Robert Denning's Extravagance of Color and Pattern" by Cynthia Zarin, Architectural Digest, v. 59 #4, pp. 146-152, April 2002.

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• It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code makes the past feel like a dull, grainy, faraway thing, instead of something vibrant and alive.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Hate, Kids, Past

  "The Da Vinci Code". www.salon.com. May 18, 2006.

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• Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again.

  Mary Ruefle

  Believe, Giving, Advice

  "Madness, Rack, and Honey". Book by Mary Ruefle, therumpus.net. August 7, 2012.

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• Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Food, People, Cooking

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• It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

  Scott Berkun

  Fun, Advice, Useless

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• As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.

  Jeanette Winterson

  New Experiences, People, Patterns

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Strong, Reading, Moving

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• If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Mean

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• Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Real, Dark, Imagination

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “The Egypt Game”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Thoughts! what are they? They are my constant friends, who, when harsh fate its dull brow bends, uncloud me with a smiling ray, and in the depth of midnight force a day.

  Thomas Flatman

  Fate, Rays, Depth

  Thomas Flatman (1686). “Poems and songs”, p.66

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• Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning!

  Leigh Mitchell Hodges

  Morning, Weather, Yesterday

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• There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

  Esther Meynell

  Silly, Animal, Sheep

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

  Bruno Schulz

  Cost, Avoided, One Thing

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• I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.

  Janet Burroway

  Judgment, Unclear, Insignificant

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• There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing about them is dull or uninteresting or unplugged.

  Luci Swindoll

  Different, Lenses, Spirit

  Luci Swindoll (2003). “I Married Adventure”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.

  Lucy Prebble

  Writing, Safety, Feelings

  "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration". www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.

  Bertrand Russell

  Home, Diversity, Would Be

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.46, Routledge

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• There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Physicians, Disease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.801, Modern Library

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• There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.

  Brian F. O'Byrne

  New York, Fans, Subway

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• whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Taken, California, San Francisco

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• I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

  Nancy Lam

  Believe, Guilt, Literature

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• And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

  Libba Bray

  Pain, Believe, Ignorance

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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