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People's lives in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable - deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
— Alice Monro
dependable as only incredibly dull things can be,
— Michael R. Fletcher
Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.
— William Shakespeare
Dull people don't write interesting books. But they sure as hell can write them thick and fast.
— Abram Gitspof
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.
— William Wycherley
By making careful preparations, by foreseeing possibilities, Doc hoped to make this party as non-lethal as possible without making it dull.
— John Steinbeck
In the dull, persistent beat of her heart, she hears the rhythm of hope. It is faint and thin as a thread, but it is there.
— Libbie Hawker
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
— Henry David Thoreau
When crime was working as it was supposed to it was very dull. Very lucrative and very dull.
— E.L. Doctorow
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
As Thomas Hobbes said, If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Sister Simplicitie!Sing, sing a song to me,
Sing me to sleep!
Some legend low and long,
Slow as the summer song
Of the dull Deep. — Sydney Thompson Dobell
It must be admitted, however, that life in More's Utopia, as in most others, would be intolerably dull.
— Bertrand Russell
At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.
— Donald O. Clifton
We woke as if from a nightmare only to find that the ugly are still not beautiful and the dull still do not sparkle.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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 A. Heinlein
Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
— Anthony Daniels
The one who gets you is the one who makes you forget you ever desired anything as dull and ridiculous as perfection.
— Carla Neggers
That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
— Salman Rushdie
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A mind is only as sharp as the knife, that strives to cut through thoughtstoo tough for the blade, before it breaks or goes dull. — Anthony Liccione
And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.
— William Shakespeare
As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.
— Cassandra Clare
Approach each session as an occasion to practice being with another without expectation.
— Harold Dull
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
— Heinrich Heine
If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad
— George Orwell
As dull as moon face, never seem to change.
— Toba Beta
There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.
— Esther Meynell
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
— Caitlin Moran
My dreams were dull as my everyday life.
— Sarah Dessen
Can it be, I wondered, that life without her is so dull as this?
— Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
— William Shakespeare
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed
— Ben Elton
I think I get the picture." She shakes her head in dull wonder. "It's as if the guy knew
— Stephen King
Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.
— Douglas Adams
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. (quoted in Life After Life) — William Congreve
That will just do for me, you know. I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan't I?
— Jane Austen
A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the boat.
— Michael David Lukas
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
— Jonathan Raban
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
