#dull

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#descends #dull #earth #genius #inert

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#because #bore #dull #frankly #hold

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#against #anesthetic #blinding #brings #conscience

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. ↗

— Karl Marx

#ending #good #greek #meet #met

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#defect #dull #grave #perfection

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

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#aim #better #dull #ironies #least

I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#afford #character #christian #clothes #conversations

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it. ↗

— George Michael

#creativity #driven #dull #feel #how

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man. ↗

— John Osborne

#dull #held #indeed #man #much