#dreary

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#dreary #enthusiasm #just #kicked #lot

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride. ↗

— John Mahoney

#dreary #everything #first #gray #i

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#any #become #been #book #brothers

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#dreary #make #morals #wrong #you

With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#dreary #employed #famine #forming #minds

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ↗

— Hope Davis

#dreary #girl #i #play #suicidal

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#comfort #country #days #doubt #dreary

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. ↗

— George Eliot

#life #makes #motive #want

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#day #dream #dreary #gloom #happy

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#advice #affair #dreary #dull #nothing