#dull

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#boring #dull #get #i #just

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#diplomat #dull #experimental #financier #i

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free. ↗

— Gary Ross

#drain #dull #everything #flat #harmoniously

The devil's name is dullness. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#dullness #name

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#dullest #french #i #life #my life

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live. ↗

— John Oldham

#dull #give #life #live #other

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#call #dull #i #thing

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#dullness #editor #hung #only #ought