Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.
Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.
Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.
If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.
A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.
Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.
No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers - a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.
[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces. . . But I loved her
I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.