#dull

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

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#dullest #means #olympic #whatever

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