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dull
Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him. James Bryce
dull holiday human knowledge material natural pursuit rather reckless voyage
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls. Archibald Hill
dull fabulous hard laughed observed travel-and-tourism travelers
We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. Mary Montagu
dull dictionary
To make dictionaries is dull work. Samuel Johnson
dull lots
I really have no idea why they are all crashing. There are just lots of rolls. There's never a dull moment, which makes it more challenging. Libby Ludlow
dull littles taste
Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little rent Than the dull monarch of a continent; Without this bounty which the gods bestow, Can Fortune make one favorite happy? No. John Armstrong
dull gears said
As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human. Cassandra Clare
dull waste magnus-bane
We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull. Cassandra Clare
dull speech common
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ... Mary Renault
gears human progress sand throw
would throw sand into the gears of human progress. Gregory Mankiw
gears speed
I have one speed, I have one gear: go! Charlie Sheen
gears fields needs
I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle. Anthony Rizzo
gears grinding move projects variety work
I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely. Eric Maskin
gears records want
Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails. Dweezil Zappa
gears belief desks
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. Annie Dillard
gears reason steering
We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear. Robert Frost
gears switching policy
That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears. Ridley Scott
gears highest industry january month
New memberships in the month of January are at their highest number. The whole industry gears up for it. Brooke Correia
said asks dimitri-belikov
Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life. Richelle Mead
said wiser
You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now. Romy Schneider
said seals tombs
I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become. Umberto Eco
said young
Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old. Truman Capote
said casts
I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all. William Sanderson
said
What cannot be said will be wept. Sappho
said heard knows
I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant. Richard M. Nixon
said agree chairman
I agree with what the Chairman Greenspan said whatever it is that he did say. Robert Rubin
said loud not-sure
It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right. Sarah Dessen