#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

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. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#any #bear #dull #fully #fully alive

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. ↗

— George Eliot

#dullness #nature #private #quarrels #reason

I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#august #back #border #del #disaster

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#book #dull #enjoy #generally #histories