Quotes About Dull

Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately 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.

[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

Parents should be completely dull and ordinary and predictable. You want their relationship to be stable and incredibly boring, as though you would kill yourself if you had to be in that marriage." Neither

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

The atmosphere was so dull, the cactus I brought into work died. I was certain it died of boredom.

His voice was like the cowbells, soft-metalled and dull, but with music buried in it somewhere.

It is dull in this world, gentlemen!

Here, precisely here, man imitates God: God granted Himself the work of creation, as the highest delight, and He demands that man, too, be a creator of prosperity and the harmonious course of things. And this they call dull!

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

Lolita... is undeniably news in the world of books. Unfortunately, it is bad news. There are two equally serious reasons why it isn't worth any adult reader's attention. The first is that it is dull, dull, dull in a pretentious, florid and archly fatuous fashion. The second is that it is repulsive.

There was gray everywhere.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.

And he says that everything, absolutely everything, is a question of aesthetics and color. That people aren't really unhappy with you or your government. That the problem is the gray color of your uniforms, such a depressing color, so dull, and it doesn't go with anything. Do you realize that the only color it goes with is red, it's the only way to dress it up, make it look good? What a contradiction.

Stillman ate without relish.