Quote authors in 1920

Authors of 1920

Born or Deceased in 1920

Julius Boros

Julius Boros

Born :3 March 1920

Marion Motley

Marion Motley

Born :5 June 1920

Stan Musial

Stan Musial

Born :21 November 1920

Early Wynn

Early Wynn

Born :6 January 1920

P.D. James

P.D. James

Born :3 August 1920

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Born :16 August 1920

Alex Comfort

Alex Comfort

Born :10 February 1920

Quotes of 1920

Quotes taken from the authors in 1920

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.

It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.

There are only two guidelines in good sex, don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and don't balk them if you can help it.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats.

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate.

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Charles Bukowski