Bowie Kuhn Quotes

#1. I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That's when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.

Bill Lee

#2. I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

John Cusack

#3. But I have vertigo ... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

Rodney Atkins

#4. I had a lot of self-confidence.

Bowie Kuhn

#5. The human race. You have to love it and wish it well and not preach or think you have any reason to think you are better than anyone else. Amen. Good-bye. Peace.

Ellen Gilchrist

#6. I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory - that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

Bowie Kuhn

#7. Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place.

Ernest Cline

#8. I wasn't going to be able to fall in love like a normal person. Not when I was bleeding over someone else.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Bowie Kuhn

#10. The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

Neil Gaiman

#12. Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.

Bowie Kuhn

#13. Baseball is beautiful ... the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

Bowie Kuhn

#14. God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.

Robert Boyle

#15. You have an odd sense of morality, mistress."
"Don't be stupid," she said. "Every sense of morality is odd.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

Bill Russell

#17. I do not know that the Chinese system is any worse; there is a limit to the evil one despot alone can do, and if he is truly vicious he can be overthrown; a hundred corrupt members of Parliament may together do as much injustice or more, and be the less easy to uproot.

Naomi Novik

#18. was empty but for her. In the rows behind her sat a roomful of Sam's friends and former business associates, many of whom looked with angry surprise and spoke in barely concealed whispers

S.K. Epperson

#19. Can I decline a nymph so divine? Her voice like a flute is dulcis; Her oculus bright, her manus white And soft, when I tacto, her pulse is. O how bella, my puella I'll kiss in secula seculorum; If I've luck, sir, she's my uxor, O dies benedictorum.

Diana Gabaldon

#20. Death, but not for you, gunslinger.

Stephen King