Dull Days Quotes

• 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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• I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Facts, Size

  Letter to Deborah Webster, 25 Oct. 1958

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• I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Garden, Tree, Facts

  Letter to Deborah Webster, 25 Oct. 1958

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• A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

  Bill Watterson

  Drama, Disrespect, Battle

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• I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Simple, Garden, Mushrooms

  Letter to Deborah Webster, 25 Oct. 1958

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• Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Positive, Birthday

  Aphra Behn (1696). “The Younger Brother: Or, the Amorous Jilt. A Comedy ... Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. With Some Account of Her Life. [Edited, with Alterations and a Memoir, by Charles Gildon.]”, p.30

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• you are on the freeway threading through traffic now, moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch the radio on and get Mozart, which is something, and you will somehow get through the slow days and the busy days and the dull days and the hateful days and the rare days, all both so delightful and so disappointing because we are all so alike and so different.

  Charles Bukowski

  Moving, Different, Radio

  Charles Bukowski, “Gamblers All”

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• I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Teenreads Interview, www.teenreads.com. September 2006.

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• The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

  James Joyce

  Food, Squares, Cooking

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.86, e-artnow

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