“Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.” EndsSeemsMightBeautifulGamesForceWonderCreationBaseballSuspenseDullOperaAccumulationMetamorphosisSomething BeautifulIndescribableDrowsy Author:Joshua Ferris
“Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated.” SometimesFactsBeautifulCoursesDullPrimitiveSophisticatedAffectionateReptilesAmphibians Author:David Attenborough
“it is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. ... Pour out the dull things on paper too-you can tear them up afterward-for only then do the bright ones come. If you hold back the dull things, you are certain to hold back what is clear and beautiful and true and lively.” IfsBeautifulCertainClearTearsPaperStreamsDullLively Author:Brenda Ueland
“Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.” BeautifulGeniusDullRiddle Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.” DoeBeautifulDutyDull Book:The Sign of Jonas Source: The Sign of Jonas