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I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.
Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".
I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.
Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.
I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.
There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
I feel dull when I am unable to see my mother for long. So, when I am in Hyderabad, I spend time with her.
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
To be honest with you, most of the time the ingenue roles are a little bit dull and boring, in my opinion.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
If you look dull, the easiest thing to do is wash your face with water, and immediately you look refreshed.
Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.
The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.
If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.
Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.
Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
I really cringe at the sight of pattypan squash. So pretty and cute and having no taste or exciting texture. Dull.
I used to tell really boring stories as a child, about my toy panda's nose falling off, or something equally dull.
Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.