#dull

Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire. (The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.)" (Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, 1738) ↗

— Voltaire

#dullness #restraint #writing #secret

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#faces #get #i #i see #industry

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