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Quotes About Dull

It was a wonder a period of history so full of people having their heads chopped off could be made to seem so blindingly dull.
~ Kim Newman
Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were, there'd be no opportunity for faith, and then it would be a very dull existence.
~ Kristen Britain
Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints- the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do...
~ George R.R. Martin
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
~ Nicolas Boileau
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's a very next step to being dull.
~ Joseph Addison
New Orleans is a very dull town. It's against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary.
~ Jack Kerouac
There is a kind of dreary monotony about there characters, an American sameness about them that never varies and is always dull.
~ Jack Kerouac
Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.
~ Alec Berg
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
~ Wilfred Owen
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon.
~ Sydney Smith
I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
~ Donald Judd
There are so many sequels where everything between the special effects is just boring.
~ David Hewlett
Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
~ Emma Goldman
I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.
~ Jim Crace
In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.
~ Francis of Assisi
Hamlet's a dull fuck of a story where a fellow stands around lamenting how useless he is even to his own self, and then there's one pansy swordfight and it's over. The only good part of that is what he nicked from Kit's Dido.
~ Neal Stephenson
You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.
~ Nicholas Sparks
One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane.
~ Cobie Smulders
Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects.
~ Christopher Paolini
He must be a dull Fellow indeed, whom neither Love, Malice, nor Necessity, can inspire with Wit.
~ la bruyere jean de ii
Wrapped in tissue, safe from harm, and all they knew of life was gala events and the inside of the box. How dull. How dumb. By contrast, the grime of her journey, the outré inappropriateness of the state of her, it felt like armor. I earned this dirt. Respect. The dirt. "That's right," she said.
~ Laini Taylor