Quotes About Dreary

Then again, what Cosimo had said was right: he was nothing but an overworked drone in a cube farm, a minor cog in the dreary machinery of a third-rate mortgage mill, overlooked, unloved, a sidelined player in the big game

It had been raining for hours, one of those endless fall rains that sucked all the color out of the world and turned your life into a black-and-white movie.

A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted.

with Pittodrie Stadium – home to the intermittently disastrous Aberdeen Football Club – lurking in the background, drab and dreary in the rain. Lovely.

I have a lot of alter-egos: I would love to be a back-up singer for someone someday. I have an electronic side-project. I have a '90s grunge side project; I have a piano project... I have this industrial, goth-electronic song, super creepy sounding, just really dark and dreary.

hate Nairobi. It's dreary and chilly and always rains, and the high crime rate doesn't help. They'll pull a gold chain right off your neck in broad daylight and there's nothing anyone can do. The cops are more corrupt than the thieves. We call it Nairobbery.

A big book is a big bore.

Sin is more than turning our backs on God - it is turning our backs on life! Immorality is much more than adultery and dishonesty: it is living drab, colorless, dreary, stale, unimaginative lives.

Love drowns dreary thoughtsIt gives wings to our heart, It transports us into another worldA world of blissful choice

Two little provincial intellectuals, that was what they were, and that is the dreariest and oddest thing that can exist on earth.

On the threshold she paused ... for perchance the idea of entering, all alone, and all so changed, the home of so intense a former life was more dreary and desolate than even she could bear.

Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.

Locus tristis et palustris

It was too wet to see the sun go down, too grey to see the moon come up.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Oh, the long and dreary Winter! Oh, the cold and cruel Winter!

I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper grey censorship of all our real human values...

New Orleans is a very dull town. It's against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary.

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

Most actresses want to look their best on the screen. It's only natural. But many of my roles have called for dreary-looking characters.

What a dreary stodgy world of adults the children saw when they went out!

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

Economics is not a gay science. It is a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.