#dull

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

— Charles Darwin

#found #i #lately #me #nauseated

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

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. ↗

— James D. Watson

#conception #contrast #could #dull #goodly

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching. ↗

— Earl Weaver

#because #darn #dull #hear #likes

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world. ↗

— John Hall Wheelock

#dullest #editor #exasperating #exciting #hardest

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

#camden #dull #exciting #jersey #merely

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. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#conflict #dull #else #every #everybody

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

— J. Paul Getty

#business #dull #element #eminently #even

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#dull #heaven #live #must #place

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#dying #him #his #into #life