#dull

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#ever #gentle #joke #loves

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#duller #earth #london #ours #rainy

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#british #cinema #conformist #dull #had

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. ↗

— Herbert Read

#corporate #dull #his #individual #life

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. ↗

— Richard Steele

#appears #design #dull #noted #paper

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#critics #degree #determination #dullness #fascinating

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#brain #cannot #catch #dreams #dull

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull. ↗

— LL Cool J

#being #boring #boy #dull #focused

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#dullness #image #only #the only thing #thing

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. ↗

— Clarence Budington Kelland

#brilliant #contrast #dull #duty #speakers