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An abysmal place – Earth ... Now it’s just mind-numbingly dull. (Star Trek & Earth & Dull) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e7: Q-Less, Q
Waitress: You’re crazy ain’t ya?
Dillinger: Oh yeah, but I ain’t dull. Dillinger 1991 starring Mark Harmon & Sherilyn Fenn & Will Patton & Bruce Abbott & Tom Bower et al, director Rupert Wainwright
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. Joseph Conrad
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. Samuel Foote, 1720-77, re law lord
Gentle Dullness ever loves a joke. Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, 1742
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Oscar Wilde
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man is always dull. H L Mencken
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. Frank Capra
What makes life dreary is the want of motive. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, 1876
The first requirement of a statesman is that he is dull. Dean Acheson, 1893-1971
Duller than an in-flight magazine produced by Air Belgium. Red Dwarf VII s7e1: Tikka to Ride, Kryten to Lister, BBC 1997
The guy’s dull. Like Saturday night in Salt Lake City dull. Better Call Saul s5e5: Dedicado a Max, Mr X to Kim & Saul, AMC 2020