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  • The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy. -- Jack Kerouac
  • Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. -- Marlene Dietrich
  • No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting. -- Murray Kempton
  • Being too good is apt to be uninteresting. -- Harry S Truman
  • These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur. -- James Van Allen
  • There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke. -- Lesley Manville
  • Sometimes I realize halfway through a story, I'm like, 'Why would anyone care about this? It's uninteresting.' -- Kyle Kinane
  • There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting. -- Jason Alexander
  • To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. -- Jerry Saltz
  • I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. -- Donald A. Norman
  • If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T. -- Marcel Duchamp
  • Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. -- Ezra Pound
  • Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul. -- Ira Glass
  • It's amazing how I can just ramble on for hours, isn't it? And so unentertaining or uninteresting. But I can ramble on for hours. It's a sort of terrible gift, isn't it? -- Graham Norton
  • Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting. -- Kristen Stewart
  • It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. -- F. H. Bradley
  • The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take. -- Trent Reznor
  • Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting. -- Damian Lewis
  • I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins. -- Bayard Taylor
  • Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness. -- Jon Landau
  • If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it. -- Michelle Forbes
  • I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by. -- Jean Pigozzi
  • How uninteresting interesting things can become. -- Robert Walser
  • Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives. -- Damon Galgut
  • The perfect human being is uninteresting. -- Joseph Campbell
  • I perfected the art of being uninteresting. -- Abbi Glines
  • I feel, as a person, very uninteresting. -- Jeremy Piven
  • [Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form. -- Evan Esar
  • Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting. -- Anne Lamott
  • Being too good is apt to be uninteresting. -- Harry S Truman
  • There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me. -- Diane Keaton
  • It's interesting how interesting uninteresting people get after a few drinks. -- Stuart Blythe
  • No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him. -- George MacDonald
  • Perfectionism is boring and doesn't exist-to strive for it makes you uninteresting. -- Eva Mendes
  • Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease. -- Jamie Wyeth
  • In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. -- Brooks Atkinson
  • UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable. -- Carl Sagan
  • The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer. -- Piet Zwart
  • I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting. -- J. K. Simmons
  • My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around. -- Eugene Richards
  • Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all. -- Lillian Hellman
  • All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. -- Bertrand Russell
  • People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump. -- Eric Idle
  • I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting. -- Lily James
  • It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting. -- Peter Greenaway
  • Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. -- Dave Eggers
  • Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice. -- Constantin Stanislavski
  • He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. -- Marlene Dietrich
  • He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted. -- Patrick Süskind
  • The most uninteresting thing for me is when somebody thinks too much about how they put themselves together. -- Thom Browne
  • For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about. -- Alexei Sayle
  • A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously. -- Barbra Streisand
  • I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage. -- Bobby Cannavale
  • What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. -- Ivan Turgenev
  • It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public, -- Solomon Northup
  • I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting. -- Robert Rauschenberg
  • But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative. -- Henning Mankell
  • No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street. -- Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen. -- Robert Genn
  • [Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting. -- Julio Cortazar
  • The worst thing you can ever say about a character is not that you hated him but that you found him uninteresting. -- Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
  • The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. -- Joseph Campbell
  • Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground". -- Eddy de Clercq
  • I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. -- Donald A. Norman
  • The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people. -- John Green
  • No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. -- Oscar Wilde
  • I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting. -- Alan Rickman
  • I don't understand the mechanics behind things, so a site that I find impressive may not really be more technologically advanced than something which is ostensibly uninteresting. -- Debra Hamel
  • The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes. -- Madame de Stael
  • I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write. -- Sarah Dessen
  • The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
  • There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. -- Mark Twain
  • A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb. -- Constance Hale
  • The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them. -- Kevin J. Anderson
  • It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question. -- Magdalena Abakanowicz
  • I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting. -- Justin Vernon
  • A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself. -- Gary Zukav
  • I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting. -- Lili Taylor
  • People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification. -- Martin Walser
  • There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing about them is dull or uninteresting or unplugged. -- Luci Swindoll
  • Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art. -- Thomas Koerfer
  • The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. -- Oscar Wilde
  • My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people. -- Jerry Uelsmann
  • Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character. -- Scott Bradfield
  • I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily. -- Hayao Miyazaki
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