Dull Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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