Buck Martinez Quotes

#1. In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have my stammer if she could have her leg back, and I wondered if being happy's about other people's misery.

David Mitchell

#2. The independence of a nation springs from the independent spirit of its citizens

Alan Macfarlane

#3. There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

Buck Martinez

#4. All excellence is equally difficult.

Thornton Wilder

#5. I was wondering if my life, the life in which I had a son and a beautiful, young girlfriend, could exist outside of the hospital. Or was the hospital its container? Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?

Miranda July

#6. My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

Niall Ferguson

#7. [He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

Yayoi Kusama