Dull Life Quotes

• A life lived in love will never be dull.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Inspire, Dull

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• I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

  Martha Washington

  Thinking, States, Prisoner

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• Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Writing, Life Is Short

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Trying

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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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  I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Self Esteem, Women

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• Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.

  Woody Allen

  Pain, Short Life, Life Is Short

  Vicky Cristina Barcelona, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.

  Dale Carnegie

  Interesting, World, Filled

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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, Should, Knows

  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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• Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

  Charles de Lint

  Stupid, People, Way

  Charles de Lint (2003). “From a Whisper to a Scream”, p.103, Macmillan

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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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• Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Dog, Home, Kids

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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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, Challenges

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• The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, Men, Giving

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• Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Ambition, Interesting

  Ann Patchett (2004). “Truth and Beauty: A Friendship”

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• If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Art, Distance

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