After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office. Joshua Ferris
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. Edward Albee
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull endingKarl Heinrich Marx
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.Charles Darwin
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. Marilyn Monroe
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Mark Twain
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. Helen keller
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. Lynn Abbey
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.C. S. Lewis