Quotes About Dull

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun.

It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now. Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

What I mean is, if we aren't learning, we are forgetting, if we aren't getting smart, we are becoming dull. The latest statistic is that the average American watches 1,456 hours of television a year but only reads three books. So if it's true that readers are leaders, and the more you read the further you advance, then there isn't a lot of competition.

I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.

I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.

And as we swam, or played, or talked, a feeling would come. It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright where they were dull.

Yes, a man is a dangerous thing. So is a scalpel. It can wound or it can save your life. You don't make it safe by making it dull; you put it in the hands of someone who knows what he's doing.

We have grown dull toward this world in which we live; we have forgotten that it is not normal or scientific in any sense of the word. It is fantastic. It is fairy tale through and through. Really now. Elephants? Caterpillars? Snow? At what point did you lose your wonder at it all?

But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay for the satisfaction of a passing sexual attraction.

Higgins, Helen was aware, was a singularly eccentric and troublesome colleague, who managed at the same time to be dull and cloddish to the point of sleep.

The crash in 1929, however, did have one therapeutic effect: it, somewhat exceptionally, lingered in the financial memory. For the next quarter of a century securities markets were generally orderly and dull. Although this mood lasted longer than usual, financial history was not at an end. The commitment to Schumpeter's mania was soon to be reasserted.

Boys are like pennies. You find them lying around everywhere! They aren't worth much. Some are bright, some are dull. But don't be sad if you lose one cuz there is a million more out there!

By making careful preparations, by foreseeing possibilities, Doc hoped to make this party as non-lethal as possible without making it dull.

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.

Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it." "Accounting?

Maybe a different job, though. Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it." "Accounting?

the power of relinquishing what one would keep; that is freedom. Become dinosaur- skulled, quilled or salamander-wooled, more ironshod and javelin-dressed than a hedgehog battalion of steel, but be dull. Don't be envied or armed with a measuring rod.

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he's just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that's what I mean.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

The criminality added a certain spice to an otherwise stultifying existence in an utterly boring location.