Dull Quotes
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Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.
William Shakespeare -
Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
Colleen McCullough -
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve -
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
William Styron -
Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.
William Arthur Ward -
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
Ninette de Valois
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We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
William Hazlitt -
Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.
Steve Albini Big Black -
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.
Sarah Dessen -
My spirit saw how dull and down I was and came and sat laughing on my bed. Holding my brow, "Sweetheart, I can't bear to see you like this!
Rumi -
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.
Carl Friedrich von Rumohr -
You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.
Norman Vincent Peale
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You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.
William Shakespeare -
Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago—she thought it was freaking hilarious. She couldn’t stop laughing about the shell-bra thing, given that mermaids aren’t mammals. Plus, as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and “peach colored” for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hot, but then again, I am a mammal.
Kiersten White -
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
Red Smith -
Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.
William Peter Blatty -
It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.
George Antheil
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If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.
Alex Katz -
Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.
Charles Baxter -
I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
William Wordsworth