#dull

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull? ↗

— William Bernbach

#because #do you know #dull #get #good

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#better place #dangerous #dangerous place #duller #ideas

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#capabilities #dull #grow #human #human beings

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#fellow #good #good story #invariably #other

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#bashful #being #belonged #court #dull

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. ↗

— William Congreve

#danger #dull #find #great #growing

I'm really boring, man. Like, I'm really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it's pretty dull. But that's what I like. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#dull #fun #glamorous #i #i think

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#illusions #profitable #respectable #safe

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#found #i #lately #me #nauseated

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare