Joseph Addison Quotes

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.

So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next paragraph, or reread the last one for the tenth time.

I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

Being successful is kind of dull.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.