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Letter "D" » dull
«Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.»
«I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.»
Author: Tallulah Bankhead
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Actress)
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Keywords:
bed,
ditch,
ditched,
ditches,
dull,
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get up,
go to bed,
mute,
muted,
mutes,
phobia,
phobias,
slick,
sonnet,
Sonnets,
water bed
«In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Keywords:
bent,
bents,
blunt,
blunted,
blunting,
blunts,
dull,
dulled,
grindstone,
hammer,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
instrument,
seeing
«No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.»
«It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull»
«It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.»
«It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.»
«I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(
Actress,
Producer)
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About:
Women
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Keywords:
conflict,
conflict of,
dull,
dulled,
duller,
dullest,
dulling,
dulls,
learning process,
process,
trying
«Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
People
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Keywords:
breakfast,
breakfasted,
breakfasts,
brilliant,
dull,
dulled,
duller,
dullest,
dulling,
dulls
«Like a dull actor nowI have forgot my part and I am out,Even to a full disgrace.»