Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
I feel dull when I am unable to see my mother for long. So, when I am in Hyderabad, I spend time with her.
I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger – they slip far more often.
When I play under bright lights on TV, the reflection off the dart barrel could be distracting. It’s not high-tech stuff but I use the flame from the gas cooker at home to blacken the metal and dull them.
Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.
Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
But the underdog socialists’ biggest problem isn’t that they are wrong. They are not. Their biggest problem is that they’re dull. Dull as a doorknob. They’ve got no story to tell; nor even the language to convey it in.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Trump is Trump. Some people find him hilarious. I don’t find it hilarious, but you can’t say it’s dull. There’s nothing credible about Donald Trump.
I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
I’m a dull person.
You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age… pretty dull.
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
Andre Ward beat me fair and square on points in a boring fight, a dull affair. Same as when he beat Kessler. Headbutted him to bits, but he knows how to win. He wins ugly, but he knows how to win.
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
Grown-up parties are so dull they make me want to throw a tantrum and hurl red wine on the nearest cream-damask armchair.
If, at any moment, reality gets dull or boring, our phone offers something more pleasurable, more productive and even more educational than whatever reality gives us.
Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
You have to be real sharp when you’re touring. I’m dull normal at home. So when I come off the road, my kids have to put up with Mom making cracks every five minutes for a couple of days.
Normally, I bolt at the idea of playing anyone for too long because I don’t want it to become dull and like another job.
Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders.
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
The dull routine of our daily job takes on a new significance, assumes a beauty and importance undreamt of before, if we consider it from the angle of service to God.
If your home is anything like mine, it contains several rarely explored crannies stashed full of archaic chargers, defunct cables, and freshly antiquated gizmos whose sole useful function in 2011 is to make 2005 feel like 1926, simply by looking big and dull and impossibly lumpen.
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one’s a celebration and the other’s a dull fact.
I’m not on Twitter because I’m worried I’d be really dull, which would be tragic for someone who’s supposed to be funny.
On any given day, I’m likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences – or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles.
Investing should be dull. It shouldn’t be exciting.
I’d love to work in a restaurant. You get to meet new people all the time and constantly socialize. There are no dull moments when you’re serving. It would definitely be a fun job to have.
Offence is important; that’s how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you’re not offended. So dull.
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
I cannot handle dull, lazy, morose people. I have been like that since childhood.
If you won every game, which is impossible, then life would be flat and dull.
I get to come home to my family. It’s awesome, just constant adventure, never a dull moment. So much life.
It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn’t really.
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don’t read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.
I have really sensitive skin, so all I use is Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser and Moisturizing Cream, and then during the day, I’ll use CeraVe with SPF, but nothing crazy. My skin also gets really dry, so I do a mask from time to time – or if my skin is feeling dull, then I’ll put one on.
As long as those adjectives used to describe me – charming, affable, punctual – don’t mean that I’m dull, then that’s fine. And I am polite – I was brought up to be that way.
During dull moments at school, I admit, I not only drew soldiers shooting one another but also tanks, bombers, fighters, and even the occasional space ship with planet-destroying powers.
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called ‘Hollywood’ is – and that can give you a really dull headache.
If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn’t it?
I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone’s happy all the time, it’s a bit dull. It’s like salt and caramel – you wouldn’t imagine they would go well together, but they do.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don’t know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
Everybody has that thing about them that makes them special, and sometimes we try to dull it down or we don’t always want to expose it, and maybe we’ve been taught that way or whatever. It’s just a matter of letting it out and letting it go and letting people in on it.
Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
Michael Rooker is like the Merle Haggard of the acting world. Never a dull moment.
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
Only in retrospect can I find clues to my father’s gayness. Sometimes the dull detritus of our pasts become glaring strands once you realize they form a pattern, a lighted path to the present.
My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn’t a patch on my sister. It wasn’t much fun growing up with her and her almost irrational social climbing in that huge house of my dull stepfather Hughdie Auchincloss in Washington.
Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they’re always a bit brown and a little dull.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
