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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? -- Emily Dickinson
What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely. -- Tessa Dare
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ... -- Ellen Glasgow
Don't be drab. -- Thomas Leonard
To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab. -- Eva Longoria
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
My wardrobe is drab. I could spend six weeks in the same jeans. Most everything I have is blue or black, but certainly not cool. -- Colum McCann
I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business. -- Liza Minnelli
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective. -- Harold Bloom
To hell with exciting. I'd rather be drab as hell and win. -- Woody Hayes
I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside. -- Anne Truitt
I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world. -- Errol Flynn
The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley. -- Oswald Chambers
On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties. -- Quentin S. Crisp
If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space. -- Tom Kelley
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. -- George Steiner
I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab. -- Quentin S. Crisp
Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours. -- Kenneth Grahame
Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us. -- John Moulder Wilson
Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting. -- Al Pacino
I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion. -- Rene Magritte
Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated. -- Malak El Halabi
Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results. -- Lisa Kleypas
The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow. -- John Updike
Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing. -- Hilaire Belloc
You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. -- Graham Chapman
If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough! -- Charles Baudelaire
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints. -- William James
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music. -- Marya Mannes
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about? -- Lucy Maud Montgomery

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