Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey."
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Bette Davis
Actress
"If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull."
Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them."
Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
"Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms. Classifications are theories about the basis of natural order, not dull catalogues compiled only to avoid chaos."
Martin Gardner
Mathematician
"In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance."
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"A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers."
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"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one."
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"We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams."
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"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out."
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"If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one."
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"Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning."
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"The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull."
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"We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way."
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"With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock."
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"With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree."
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"One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring."
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"History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes."
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"Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned."
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"All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy."
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"Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting."
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"Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top."
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"My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back."
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
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"There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark."
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"It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull."
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