Quotes About Dull

he's about as entertaining as ten pounds of asphalt.

It was a slate-gray day, featureless, drab, and cold.

What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

You have to choose your combinations careful. The right choices will enhance your quilt. The wrong choices will dull the colors and hide their original beauty. There are no rules you can follow. You have to go by instinct and you have to be brave.

Now I will be anything else you please, except dull. You may say I have been dull already? As I am an honest woman, I don't agree with you. There are some people who bring dull minds to their reading - and them blame the writer for it. I say no more.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. (quoted in Life After Life)

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

My heart is making a dull, drumming sound and I'm thinking that my life is a waiting game and I'm sinkin' all the while.

All bullshit and no death and mutilated assholes makes Jack a dull boy, dull and tense.

The first was that of ignorance. It consists in not knowing, not understanding, that life is an evil and an absurdity. People of this sort -- chiefly women, or very young or very dull people -- have not yet understood that question of life which presented itself to Schopenhauer, Solomon, and Buddha.

"We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily. "Really you are very dull!"

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

The sky was the colour of an unpolished euphonium, tuned to a dead key.

But we are in the age of the mediocre man. He is dull, colorless, boring—but inevitably victorious.

Blaze is about as smart as a concussed sheep,

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

Despair is always described as dull, when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.

Sometimes what's important is dull.

Sometimes what's important is dull. Sometimes it's work. Sometimes the important things aren't works of art for your entertainment, X.

He was rather dull, perhaps, but would not such wine make any conversation pleasant?