#dull

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#am #because #case #dull #essentially

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. ↗

— John James Audubon

#dull #enthusiastic #geography #hard #i

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#bad one #dullness #excellence #good #good sign

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse. ↗

— David Bailey

#body #concern #deeply #drinking #dull

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#dull #exciting #life #speak #then

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#first #requirement #statesman

It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull. ↗

— George Antheil

#go #only #stop #suddenly #you

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals? ↗

— Mason Cooley

#expect #never #never expect #people #rascals

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #dulling #excellence #goodbye #human

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#am #analysis #atmosphere #crave #dull