Quote authors in 1915

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Authors of 1915

Born or Deceased in 1915

Rupert Brooke

Tribute :23 April 1915

orson welles

Born :6 May 1915

Al Spalding

Tribute :9 September 1915

Arthur Miller

Born :17 October 1915

Fawn M. Brodie

Born :15 September 1915

John Henrik Clarke

Born :1 January 1915

Norman Cousins

Born :24 June 1915

Quotes of 1915

Quotes taken from the authors in 1915

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

Norman Cousins

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Norman Cousins

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Norman Cousins

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

Al Spalding

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

Al Spalding

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.

Al Spalding

Baseball is a man maker.

Al Spalding

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Al Spalding

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Fawn M. Brodie

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Fawn M. Brodie

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Fawn M. Brodie

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

orson welles

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

orson welles

I have no great message to the world.

orson welles

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

orson welles

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

orson welles

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

Arthur Miller

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Arthur Miller