Top 140 Dull Quotes

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed… but dull?

I think less is more when it comes to make-up; this really helps achieve a lighter complexion. Heavy make-up creates a canvas and can dull the skin.

There’s no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there’s no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

The fear of losing is always there, but you mustn’t let that fear dull your desire to win.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That’s what He promises people who believe in His Son. That’s what all the Robertsons are banking on.

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

It’s just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you’ve got less interest in than you had, because you’ve always moved on to something else.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

If I make a happy, happy movie one day, I’ll think it’s dull.

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.

Friendly Fires were dull, and I wouldn’t really sit down and listen to Hot Chip.

A writer’s life suits me. It’s fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that’s fine because I feel that my imagination is enough to kind of keep me happy.

I think I’m dull. I would rather watch other people.

Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity – folding laundry, applying makeup – became tolerable when I did it while listening to a country singer describing his hardscrabble childhood, or a novelist defending her open marriage.

With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn’t be a dull date, because I am a jock.

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don’t consider myself a dull subject.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about – worthy, dull. Something you should ‘have’ to read / write about.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don’t feel you’re reaching something new, then don’t do it.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that’s why politicians are extremely dull.

No one in my family was creative. One of my sisters went to a university, and pretty much, most of my siblings live a basic and dull lifestyle.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It’s preferable when it’s not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.

I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I’m actually a rather dull man.

Angry or not. It’s a human emotion. But you can’t walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you’d have to be!

I worry sometimes that I’m a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that’s dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye – high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It’s preferable when it’s not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can’t afford these Christian Louboutins.

The thing about local government is they want to hear what local people think, but for the most part, their systems are so long, dull and bureaucratic that people only get involved when there’s an issue they really care about.

Lame blades can dull relatively quickly, so after slashing several loaves the blade won’t slice through the dough with tremendous ease. (When this happens, don’t throw it away – it’s still sharp enough to score duck or pork skin, or shave paper-thin slices of garlic and chives, like a hot knife through butter).

The way I approach any role, whether it’s comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy for the sake of comedy wears dull pretty quickly. You have to ground the character in reality first and allow the audience to sympathize, emphasize and be more invested.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Something that I’ve always been. Always lively. I don’t want to be dull.

Despite what people say about my major film roles, I’m not a dull or monotonous woman searching for self-identity.

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it’s just a question of taste.

If I wasn’t an actress and I wasn’t Stifler’s mom, my life would be so dull.

Some friends think I’m dull now. But I think it’s great that I’m no longer trying to make everyone laugh in the pub.

I’m dull.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

The most fascinating powers don’t mean a thing if the guy’s poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won’t hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it’s his motivation that makes him the character he is.

The language has got to be fully alive – I can’t bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don’t see why any reader should put up with it.

Suddenly, at about ten o’clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

If it hadn’t been for record people like Ralph Peer, the Chess brothers, and Alan Lomax, then life would’ve been unbelievably dull, and I would’ve been sacking groceries somewhere and probably, at this point, running a little 7-Eleven down by the airport.

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it’s weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it’s next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Akshay Kumar is more than a son to me. What I love about him is that there is never a dull moment with him. He is always up to some nonsense.

As a writer, you’re making a pact with the reader; you’re saying, ‘Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.’

When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.