| "There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper'" »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "Baseball is dull only to dull minds." »Red Barber |
| "It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Conform and be dull." »J. Frank Dobie |
| "He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others." »Samuel Foote |
| "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech." »Julius Henry Marx |
| "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." »Alfred Hitchcock |
| "Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." »John Bay |
| "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." »Francis Bacon |
| "No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." »William Shakespeare |
| "Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way." »Edna Ferber |
| "Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments." »Isaac Asimov |
| "Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink." »F. H. Bradley |
| "Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character." »James Bridie |
| "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures." »Henry Anatole Grunwald |
| "If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it." »Joyce Carol Oates |
| "School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." »Robert Anson Heinlein |
| "To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men." »Albert Einstein |
| "Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd." »Edith Sitwell |
| "If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery." »Charles Krauthammer |
| "Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness." »Albert Einstein |
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