#dull

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#dull #going #great #idea #illusion

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#bad-writing #dullness #humor #writing #age

As dull as moon face, never seem to change. ↗

— Toba Beta

#moon #unchanging #change

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#poetry #freedom

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#masterpiece #may #never #unwelcome

Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies." "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead! ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#howl #sophie #love

Conform and be dull. ↗

— J. Frank Dobie

#conformity #dull #conformity

What kind of life can you have in a house without books? ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#boredom #dullness #inspiration #life #necessity

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#bed #could #ditch #dull #get

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#burglars #curtains #dull #friend #grew