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  • I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is because they are not in the battle, not using their weapons, not advancing against the enemy.

  • I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

    Funny   Dull   Insult  
    1860 The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol.1.
  • You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

    Song: Talking Loud And Saying Nothing, Album: There It Is
  • What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

    Ocean   Moon   Dna  
  • Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.

  • I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

  • Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

    Acting   Actors   Dull  
    'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 40
  • People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

    Lonely   Hate   Drug Use  
    Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.61, Counterpoint
  • Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

    Grease   Floating   Dull  
    Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

    Hands   Skills   Creating  
  • A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

    Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.44, Faber & Faber
  • A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

    1970 Going Steady.
  • It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

    Nature   Animal   Men  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press
  • The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

    Home   Views   World  
    Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.280, Penguin
  • I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

    1675 The Country Wife, act 3, sc.2.
  • Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

    Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
  • Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.

  • Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

    Anthony Burgess (2012). “The Kingdom of the Wicked”, p.4, Allison & Busby
  • Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

  • In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it.

    Math   Men   Intellectual  
  • An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.

    People   Actors   Dull  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower, That Time upon her angel brow should set His crooked autograph, and mar the jet Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green, The hoar frost and the canker worm destroy. Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.

    Time   Eye   Angel  
    Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.25
  • When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

    "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1906.
  • A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

  • The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

    Monday   Nice   People  
  • As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

    Hate   Writing   Ambition  
    Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.534, Pan Macmillan
  • I’m really boring, man. Like, I’m really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it’s pretty dull. But that’s what I like.

    Fun   Men   Thinking  
    Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com. March 3, 2011.
  • Never dull your shine for somebody else.

    FaceBook post by Tyra Banks from Aug 30, 2011
  • It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.

    Hands   Feelings   Mind  
  • I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

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