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Quotes About Insipid

La gente no habla de nada. - ¡Oh, de algo hablarán! - No, de nada. Nombran una serie de automóviles, hablan de ropa o de piscinas y dicen que es estupendo. Pero todos comentan lo mismo y nadie tiene una idea original.
~ Ray Bradbury
Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you - smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage.
~ Joseph Conrad
I certainly must, said she. This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of every thing's being dull and insipid about the house!— I must be in love;
~ Joseph Conrad
Mostly harmless
~ Douglas Adams
I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
~ Aimee Bender
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
~ William Congreve
Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.
~ Rob Brezsny
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
~ Anita Loos
I am genuinely dull. Duller than the world's dullest-ever thing, so dull it's not worth the time it takes to imagine it.
~ Dawn French
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
~ Anita Loos
La fin de mes livres, sauf La place et Une femme, a été souvent insipide, inutile, rupture de l'écriture plutôt que conclusion, fin.
~ Annie Ernaux
Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Naught so insipid in the world I find As is a devil in despair.
~ Johann Goethe
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
In this way, the bravery of the warrior underwrites collective civic cowardice, while fostering a slack, insipid patriotism.
~ Andrew J. Bacevich
American warriors may not win wars, but they do perform the invaluable service of providing their countrymen with an excuse to avoid introspection. They make second thoughts unnecessary. In this way, the bravery of the warrior underwrites collective civic cowardice, while fostering a slack, insipid patriotism. In
~ Andrew J. Bacevich
He is shown to a car as small, bland, and white as a hospital dessert
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Good. Now. Let's talk our talk. Your beloved institution seems like it wants to step up to the next level. Be a culture player. Crank out all those smug nullities who can make the stylish, insipid, top-notch crap. Stuff we can jerk off to but that will also make us sorry, but not too sorry. Sexy sorry. Am I right?
~ Sam Lipsyte
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
~ Rudy Rucker
How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.
~ Anne Rice
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
~ George Eliot
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
~ Samuel Foote
Nice is the white bread of the English language adjective breadbox. It's tasteless, bland, and forgettable.
~ Barry Lyga
Really he was not an interesting man: short, broad, stout, red-faced, with an immense amount of mental inertia, discharging itself in constant lingual activity about little nothings.
~ George MacDonald