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.

George Antheil

It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.

Isabella Bird

Everyone acknowledges that dinner parties are equally dull in London and Paris, in Calcutta and in New York, unless the next neighbour happens to be peculiarly agreeable.

Dani Shapiro

When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

Rachel Johnson

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

Rudyard Kipling

it's always best to tell the truth.

Mark Twain

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

Mother Jones

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

Elaine Stritch

When you're dealing with your life, my God, you gotta tell the truth.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

Carson McCullers

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Baltasar Gracian

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Antonio Gramsci

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

Antonio Gramsci

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Pete Vasil

I thought there were opportunities for us, but we had trouble finishing.

Ned Van

I think it was just going to be more trouble than they had anticipated.

Tom Curle

He's getting to the rim, but he's still having trouble elevating, which is frustrating for him.

Samuel Johnson

Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.

Wayne Dyer

It's the things that we know FOR SURE, that just ain't so, that get us into trouble.

Tony Yayo

You know I'm always in trouble.

Warren G. Bennis

Don't over-react to the trouble makers.

Steve Waugh

The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.

Robert Jordan

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.