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Quotes About Dull

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
~ Matt Damon
Conversation from the living room was boring, all
~ Beverly Cleary
Sometimes it rained, but mostly it was just dull, a land without shadows. It was like living inside Tupperware.
~ Bill Bryson
I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.
~ Sylvia Plath
The tongues of hell are dull.
~ Sylvia Plath
I found the project to be a bit quiet (that is, dull), which may have led to the manuscript's current confabulation—a pseudo autobiography in which the speaker portrays herself as a fifteen-year-old girl/cheetah amalgam.
~ Julie Schumacher
Todo lo cotidiano es mucho y feo.
~ Francisco de Quevedo
She didn't bother to understand it all; it was history --boring boring boring.
~ Frank Beddor
Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Nowhere have I encountered such a dull and monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
~ Henry Miller
Lame blades can dull relatively quickly, so after slashing several loaves the blade won't slice through the dough with tremendous ease. (When this happens, don't throw it away - it's still sharp enough to score duck or pork skin, or shave paper-thin slices of garlic and chives, like a hot knife through butter).
~ Claire Saffitz
He could have had "dull" tattooed across his forehead, but that would have made him too exciting.
~ Stephen Clarke
In this shot, the light on the face (from a soft box with a daylight-balanced compact fluorescent bulb) is quite flat, but because the background is busy and bright, the light doesn't seem dull.
~ Steven Ascher
In my country, and in my time, learning improves fortunes enough, but not minds; if it meet with those that are dull and heavy, it overcharges and suffocates them, leaving them a crude and undigested mass; if airy and fine, it purifies, clarifies, and subtilizes them, even to exinanition.
~ Michel de Montaigne
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
I love the rowdiness, I love how crazy it is during the day. There's a business about it that's great. There's never a dull moment, so it really inspires the music I write.
~ D-Pryde
It had been raining for hours, one of those endless fall rains that sucked all the color out of the world and turned your life into a black-and-white movie.
~ Brian Freeman
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
~ Karl Marx
Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.
~ Karle Wilson Baker
Then there are those who feel their own strangeness and are terrified by it. They struggle toward normalcy. They suffer to exactly that degree that they are unable to appear normal to others, or to convince themselves that their aberration does not exist. These are true freaks, who appear, almost always, conventional and dull.
~ Katherine Dunn
We do not want many 'variations' in the proof of a mathematical theorem: 'enumeration of cases', indeed, is one of the duller forms of mathematical argument. A mathematical proof should resemble a simple and clear-cut constellation, not a scattered cluster in the Milky Way.
~ G.H. Hardy
Perhaps the dull ache I'm feeling comes from letting go, the realization that some memories should be left as just that, a moment in time when the fruits of life are at their sweetest.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
nice = boring
~ Hillary Frank
I was glad to be rid of him. He was one of those people who could go to New York and be fascinating, but here in his own world he was just a cheap functionary, and a dull one at that.
~ Hunter S. Thompson