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Quotes About Drab

My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.
~ Roz Chast
Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us.
~ John Moulder Wilson
He appeared nondescript enough, that was for sure. His clothes were simple-verging on drab, in fact. His beard and hair were badly cut. They looked as if he had cut them with a hunting knife, thought Deparnieux,unaware that he was only one of many people to have had that very same thoughts about Halt.
~ John Flanagan
No need for you to think about something pink to wear or something blue or yellow. No use to think about soft colours. You might as well wear one kind as another. Drab. Brown. Faded dark old shrunk-up anything is good enough. Why don't you just give up and be ugly? That's what you are. Ugly. That's all.
~ Elizabeth Madox Roberts
It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have been set up in contemptuous haste to provide shelter for the drab and the unpleasant.
~ Shirley Jackson
dull and repetitive lifestyle.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Their clothes were drab and they had to work hard all day. But they kept fit that way, and slept well.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
Todo lo cotidiano es mucho y feo.
~ Francisco de Quevedo
I'm head clown among those condemned for what they've inherited - this fool's paradise of drab transgressions, cookie-cutter villains, ballistic incontinence and headshot trivia.
~ Steve Aylett
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.
~ Brian Freeman
I believed him because the truth is never hard to recognize. Nothing is ever quite so drab and repetitious and forlorn and ludicrous as truth.
~ Budd Schulberg
reel. Everything about him seems drab—?his cotton work shirt, his complexion, his once-glistening eyes. He needs a haircut. Nathan has become his pillar of support. He checks on Bruce daily, invites him to dinner at least once a week. The rumors were rampant. Who had Samantha run away with? Every neighbor had a theory
~ C.J. Box
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.
~ Mike Yaconelli
Despite reservations on Coin's side that it's too extravagant, and on Plutarch's side that it's too drab,
~ Suzanne Collins
Jack assumed they would be heading to the pub there in Century House. It was drab, like the rest of the building, but more important, it was vastly more secure than just venturing out to some alehouse on the street.
~ Tom Clancy
Reno, a dreary town in Nevada
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Wait, it gets duller.
~ Charlie Brooker
Words have magic, and they have power. Words have color, a vivid brilliant red. Words can be drab, an old battleship gray. Words can soothe, and words can ruffle.
~ Author unknown, 1940s
In short, everything that might make a town interesting or pleasant had been made boring or unpleasant, and if Paltryville had been listed in a guidebook the only helpful hint about what to do when you got there would be: "Leave.
~ Lemony Snicket
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
he's about as entertaining as ten pounds of asphalt.
~ Tim Tharp
It was a slate-gray day, featureless, drab, and cold.
~ Timothy Egan
About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.
~ Ian Rankin
His voice was like the rest of him - about as exciting as a W-2.
~ Jim Butcher