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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.
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.
dull sides stories
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop Gabrielle Zevin
dull projects discussing
One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
dull would-be stories
A story about my life would be utterly dull. James McAvoy
dull american-universities half
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. Edward Albee
lectures essentials watches
A watch is the most essential part of a lecture. Willa Cather
lectures distinguished valet
I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead. Witold Gombrowicz
lectures nature
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
lectures clinton paychecks
How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck. Marco Rubio
lectures needs life-is
I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you. John McCain
lectures useless humans
It's useless to lecture a human. Rick Riordan
lectures physics teach
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach. Michael Faraday
lectures quarrel
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness. Os Guinness
edinburgh pun time
I'd done an Edinburgh show before, in 1981, called 'The Importance of Being Varnished' - I was in the pun trade at the time. Rory Bremner
edinburgh name plenty
If you like name brand, you know Edinburgh is the place to go, they've got plenty of them.
edinburgh ridiculous euthanasia
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. Norman MacCaig
edinburgh classic mink
You're not wearing mink knickers,are you? Prince Philip
edinburgh tourism classic
If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.
edinburgh philosopher rich
Don't become a philosopher before you become rich. Shahrukh Khan
edinburgh leave met mother product war
My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother. Martin Henderson
edinburgh knew writers
My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it. Philip Kerr
edinburgh welcome
It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very. Ian Rankin