Quotes About Dull

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.

This is all very dull, I would not state it except that you ask for it.

The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I...I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

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

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

I can be fairly boring.

Let's face it, a lot of people think Nixon is dull. Think he's a bore, a pain in the ass. They look at him as the kind of kid who always carried a bookbag. Who was forty-two years old the day he was born. They figure other kids got footballs for Christmas, Nixon got a briefcase and he loved it. He'd always have his homework done and he'd never let you copy.

The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily; 'really you are very dull!' You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.

The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

She knew that she had a tendency to allow her mind to wander, but surely that's what made the world interesting. One thought led to another, one memory triggered another. How dull it would be, she thought, not to be reminded of the interconnectedness of everything, how dull for the present not to evoke the past, for here not to imply there.

It was Coolidge of whom Dorothy Parker, when told of his death, asked, "How can they tell?" Dorothy Parker was extremely witty, but in this case her amusing observation obscured the fact that Coolidge, who was undoubtedly dull, was also a fairly successful president–for the very reason that he did nothing, and said even less. That would not be possible today, of course. People had to do things, and would not rest until they had done them.

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

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive. -Tom Buchanan

His voice was dull and tremulous, the voice of one who hopes for nothing, because all hope is vain.

It is not tedium that one feels. It is not grief. It is the desire to go to sleep clothed in a different personality, to forget, dulled by an increase in salary.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

But there was a cost to that surcease from pain, Fool. When you dull pain and hide it from yourself…" My words trickled away. I did not want to sound self-pitying. "You dull your joys as well." He said it simply." p. 510 Fitz to the Fool