Dull Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

  Rachel Cohn

  Book, Would Be, Cloning

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• A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

  H. L. Mencken

  Depressing, Prayer, Dark

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.13, Knopf

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• M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Genius, Zola

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.925, Wordsworth Editions

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• Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Art, Nice, Entertainment

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• If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

  Neil Jordan

  People, Made, Great Things

  "Q&A: Neil Jordan, Master of the Vampire Movie". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

  Mick Jagger

  College, Oxford, Wonderful

  "Jagger Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.mickjagger.com. November 7, 1995.

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• Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

  Colleen McCullough

  Perfection, Imperfection

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• Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

  Simon Hoggart

  Book

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• I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

  Chip Kidd

  Book, Thinking, Noise

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• Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Pain, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Heart, Companion, Amorous

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• I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

  Jerry Robinson

  Hero, Interesting, Exotic

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• Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hero, Book, Mean

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• Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

  Dodie Smith

  Liars, Heaven, Would Be

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.565, Random House

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• I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Character, Vulnerability

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• I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

  Charles Dickens

  Rights, Words Of Wisdom, Awful

  Charles Dickens (1860). “All the Year Round”

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• In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

  Si Robertson

  Believe, Son, Winter

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• Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

  Richard Baxter

  Teaching, Life Is Short, Soul

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.122

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• We know what boredom is: it is a dull
  Impatience or a fierce velleity,
  A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude,
  To make or do. In the strict sense, of course,
  We invent nothing, merely bearing witness
  To what each morning brings again to light

  Richard Wilbur

  Morning, Light, Boredom

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Projects, Discussing

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• Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

  Rose Macaulay

  Work, Existence, Get Away

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Money, Boys, Play

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• Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Complaining, Congress

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• My brain is dull, my sight is foul,
  I cannot write a verse, or read--
  Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl,
  And let us have a lark instead.

  Thomas Hood

  Sex, Writing, Sight

  Thomas Hood, Frances F. Broderip (1860). “Memorials: In 2 Vol”, p.339

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