Dull Conversation Quotes

#1. We need to define gentrification as separate from the process of displacement.

Justin Davidson

#2. The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

Vance Havner

#3. Sex with my first boyfriend was a little bit like learning how to put in a tampon, but only half as enjoyable!

Samantha Bee

#4. I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).

Frances Trollope

#5. A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

George Jean Nathan

#6. The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

Donald L. Hicks

#7. Mind, Sancho, I do not say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#8. I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done.

Tony Dungy

#9. By working we become co-workers with God.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

Cameron Dokey

#11. Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as a rule, hate literary conversation, and yet at the right moment, with all its powers of feeling, the mind in silence may feel what it owes to literature.

William Hurrell Mallock

#12. It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Boris Becker

#13. I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you're not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts.

Tavis Smiley

#14. I am a dull fellow ... my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.

Jack Vance

#15. Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

Ann Patchett

#16. A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull and obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.

Anthony Powell

#18. Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

Phillip Adams

#19. Beauty, business, blogs, & bullshit...never a dull conversation with your friends you have tons in common with.

April Mae Monterrosa

#20. People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

Rolf Potts

#21. What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?

Charlotte Ross

#22. It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

Dorothy Nevill

#23. Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

Barack Obama