Quotes About Dull

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull.

Please recall that I am the pale neurasthenic one and you are the stern heroic one," Matthew said to James. "It is very tedious when you mix up our roles." "So what is my role?" said Christopher. "Mad inventor, of course," said Matthew promptly. "And Thomas is the one with a good heart." "Lord, I sound dull," said Thomas.

What's going on?" "We seem to be trapped in an episode of One Life to Waste ," Magnus observed. "Its all very dull." -Alec & Magnus, pg.144-

Dull people have immaculate homes.

I admit to a specialized occupation, which in fact has not so much as acquired a name. Not to put too keen an edge on it, I wait under gallows until the corpse drops, whereupon I assume possession of the clothes and valuables. I find little competition in the field; the work is dull, and I will never become wealthy, but at least it is honest, and I have time to daydream.

But the underdog socialists' biggest problem isn't that they are wrong. They are not. Their biggest problem is that they're dull. Dull as a doorknob. They've got no story to tell; nor even the language to convey it in.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

Have you ever noticed that the less interesting something is, the longer people want to talk about it?

Then there are other media, too, their role is quite different: it's diversion... The purpose of those media is just to dull people's brains; to get them to watch national football... or get involved in astrology or fundamentalist stuff, just get them away, get them away from things that matter. And for that it's important to reduce their capacity to think.

Johnny Dandy starring Blake Headley and Patricia De Hammond had been running on Broadway at the Divinity Theater since Memorial Day weekend. Critics had meted their blows and yet. The dialogue and action were so shrouded in euphemism, so opaque in meaning and intention, alternately dull and

What is it about wine, Harry? —What d'ya mean? —What is it that cures us? —Made to glorify the gods. And dull the idiots.

Reno, a dreary town in Nevada

People say the word 'nice' and they mean 'boring.

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

I am glimmerless.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Where, in the dull eyes of doating men, are the laughing light and life of childhood, the gaiety that has known no check, the frankness that has felt no chill, the hope that has never withered, the joys that fade in blossoming?