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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

An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could have almost written a poem. — Matt Haig

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

Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be. — Estelle

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

First things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void. — T.D. Jakes

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

Talk with a comfortable tempo - too fast sounds nervous and you might lose the audience, too slow can come across as dull-witted. — Glen Wilson

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

The human mind searches for cause and effect, always; and we all prefer the weird and thrilling to the dull and commonplace as an answer. — Jack Finney

A mind is only as sharp as the knife, that strives to cut through thoughts
too tough for the blade, before it breaks or goes dull. — Anthony Liccione

Sky glowing dull pink. Simmer dim, as the Shetlanders called — Ian Rankin

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

However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos. — Edward Young

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

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one. — Red Barber

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. — Italo Calvino

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

Her gut ached, as if love was being dug out of her with a dull knife. — Janet Fitch

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

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. — David Lilienthal

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age. — Ben Hecht