Dull Quotes - Page 38

• 'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hair, Land, Sky

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• It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something that is not my fault. But he sobering truth is that if I step onto the path of self-destruction, I know I will never come back.

  Bill Jenkins

  Grief, Self, Alcohol

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• We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

  Henry Miller

  Criticism, Way, Firsts

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.166, New Directions Publishing

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• Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

  Martha Beck

  Skills, Grace, Quitting

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• Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

  Henry Miller

  Country, Divorce, Men

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• The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

  Lord Hailsham

  Democracy, Politics, Moments

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• I'm so hyper. (said with a very dull voice>

  Steven Wright

  Voice, Said, Hyper

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• Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.

  Isaiah

  Ears, Arms, Too Short

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• A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

  Barbra Streisand

  Pure, Flamboyant

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• My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to dip in and out of, to hold, to have on your shelf.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Book, Thinking, Dip

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

  Jim Woodring

  Reality, Vision, Surprise

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Believe, Simple

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• Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

  Frank Herbert

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

  Edward Abbey

  Jobs, Artist, Miracle

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, World, Would Be

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• Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Success, Lonely, Kindness

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• A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

  Magha

  Men, Arrows, Mind

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• In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Trying, Breakfast

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.603, Wordsworth Editions

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• You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,--in winter expecting the sun of spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Patience, Regret, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

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• Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Worry, Despair

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.208

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• In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Pigs, Ravens

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• Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tree, Woodpeckers, Speed

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• (Television) rots the senses in the head!
  It kills imagination dead!
  It clogs and clutters up the mind!
  It makes a child so dull and blind
  He can no longer understand
  A fantasy, a fairyland!
  His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
  His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
  He cannot think -he only sees!

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Thinking, Imagination

  Roald Dahl, “Television”

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• The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.

  Alfred Marshall

  Storm, Ruins, Path

  Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley Marshall (1888). “The Economics of Industry”

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• The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Book, Boys, Four

  Jack Kerouac (1971). “The Dharma Bums”, p.130, Penguin

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