“I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.” PeopleIfsWellsDifferentFoundGamesSportsEnjoyHalfWatchesViolenceTeamFieldsFootballThousandQuietIntellectualEmptyBaseballBallsExcitingAppealsParksComparisonAfternoonAestheticStadiumsBounceTuesdayFootball GameSports TeamOne Sided Author:Bowie Kuhn
“I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks very boring, but actually it's the most exciting place because it's going on for you, and you're in that relationship. In that sense, it's like being with a lover. Nobody else can intrude on that space. It's the two of you. It's your own world.” WorldLooksTwoBookMovingReadingSpaceLoversQuietExcitingBoringSolitary Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.” WorldWritingAudienceQuietOfficeExcitingCompanionshipVivid Book:Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 Source: Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912
“Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we always reported on foreign affairs - we always had this quiet voice. It was so quiet sometimes I had to say 'speak up'. And he gave it in a way which wasn't exactly scintillating. And you know, foreign affairs are interesting. They affect everything that happened to our own way of life, and they are exciting. And so we just diverged.” KnowsWayDifferentSometimesSpeakVoiceInterestingHappenedStyleMinesQuietExcitingAffairLovelyCabinetsPersonal StyleForeign AffairsQuiet Voice Author:Margaret Thatcher
“Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.” MenLooksEyeLife IsFoundPleasureQuietExcitingCharacteristicsGreat MenQuiet Life Book:The Conquest of Happiness Source: The Conquest of Happiness