Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.
O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!
Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated.
The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything.
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
To make dictionaries is dull work.
Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.
People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.
One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime. . . he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's. . . what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.
Too much shine, can dull the soul