Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Bryce

Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.

Archibald Hill

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.

Mary Montagu

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.

Samuel Johnson

To make dictionaries is dull work.

Libby Ludlow

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

Sidney Buchman

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Louisa May Alcott

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

Louis Auchincloss

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Mike Hohensee

I thought he did some tremendous things. I thought he did some poor things. He has a lot of room to grow.

Woody Allen

I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Vita Sackville-West

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

Sandra Cisneros

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Jerramy Stevens

If you start out poorly like that, the tension only mounts every game.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.

Mark Burnett

Rock stars are colorful personalities and charismatic performers who make great reality TV characters,

Scott Wright

The set itself is like a framed piece of art. And the costumes are more colorful as opposed to a lot of the drab earth-tone colors usually used for this show.

Matt Blunt

They're colorful snapshots of who we are as people, ... Each dress tells a story.

Patch Adams

I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

Jennifer Kopp

That's not to say we don't have some very high-quality Zinfandel vineyards with colorful histories and unique locations.

Paul Davis

We are at a colorful period. The last period that was this colorful was the mid-'50s, when they had all those pink Chevrolets. Now, because of the design revolution taking place, we're using color in a much more creative way.

Corey Feldman

I have led a pretty colorful life.

Lucy Liu

She was colorful and wonderful. When you do television, it goes into everyone's living room and they feel like they can watch you every week.

Christopher Darden

My creative juices really don't stall. I like to write in a very straightforward, conversational way, but of course it has to be colorful as well.