Dull Quotes - Page 25

• The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.

  Bob Proctor

  Opposites, Risk, Today

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 09, 2011

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• The Lilly girl is always full of surprises. She lives everyday like it's a celebration, never has a dull moment, and makes every hour a happy hour.

  Lilly Pulitzer

  Girl, Everyday, Celebration

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• I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Ems, Quiet

  Edith Wharton, Marion Mainwaring (1994). “The Buccaneers”, p.115, Penguin

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• I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Religious, Attitude, Athlete

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• When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything.

  Taylor Swift

  Moving, Trying, Moments

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• I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

  Ben Shahn

  Elements, World, Chaos

  Ben Shahn (1972). “Ben Shahn”

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• Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could lead to the disease called alcoholism, which is humiliating, dangerous, and even deadly.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beer, Alcohol, Use

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• As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Church, Lines

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 347

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• To be dull is easy,
  to be active requires
  tremendous work.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Easy, Active

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• All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religion, Originality, Christianity

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• If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Encouragement, Women, Party

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• Too much shine, can dull the soul

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Shining, Soul, Too Much

  FaceBook post by Big K.R.I.T. from Feb 17, 2014

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• A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, Clever, Book

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.372, Penguin

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• How peaceful life would be without love.  How safe, how tranquil and how dull.

  Sean Connery

  Peaceful, Safe, Would Be

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• When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

  Jaden Smith

  Prison, Whole Life, Whole

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2014

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• When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

  Ian Fleming

  Men, Names, Casting

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• If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

  Mark Twain

  Discovery, Interesting, Trying

  Mark Twain (2001). “How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls & Daring Young Women”, p.194, U of Nebraska Press

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• I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  Hate, Fighting, Winning

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• The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in the principles that promise the greatest good to the greatest number-to ALL MEN, regardless of race, creed or previous condition of servitude... It will be a fair newspaper, not a dull and selfish sheet.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Selfish, Believe, Heart

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• Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, War, Next Day

  American Mercury, Apr. 1928

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• The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Monday, Nice, People

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• Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.

  Cedric Price

  Matter, Architect, Lost

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• I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make life too dull for me as a scientist. ... I hope, and believe, that the Space Telescope might make the Big Bang cosmology appear incorrect to future generations, perhaps somewhat analogous to the way that Galileo's telescope showed that the earth-centered, Ptolemaic system was inadequate.

  John N. Bahcall

  Believe, Knowledge, Fate

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• It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.

  G. H. Hardy

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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