Top Dull Quotes

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never p...

Dull Definition

(superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

(superl.) Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.

(superl.) Insensible; unfeeling.

(superl.) Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.

(superl.) Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.

(superl.) Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.

(superl.) Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.

(v. t.) To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.

(v. t.) To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.

(v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

(v. t.) To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.

(v. i.) To become dull or stupid.

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one who was too stupid to be a clerk. Probably I should receive no replies; possibly one. Possibly...

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

She felt a bored indifference toward the immediate world around her...She took it as a regrettable accident, to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were...

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.

Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

Girlsplease give yourbodies and yourlivestothe young menwhodeserve thembesidesthere isno wayI would welcometheintolerabledullsenseless hellyou would bringmeandI wish youluckin bedandoutbut notinmineth...

One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!

Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.

Lenin's Personal life was extraordinarily dull. He dressed and lived like a middle-aged provincial clerk, with precisely fixed hours for meals, sleep, work and leisure. He liked everything to be neat...

Whatever she is now she's better than she was, said Bedloe. Being dead is better than being dull, being dead is better than not being aware.