Quote authors in 1930

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Authors of 1930

Born or Deceased in 1930

Neil Armstrong

Born :5 August 1930

Frank Gifford

Born :16 August 1930

Vernon Law

Born :12 March 1930

Kenneth Anger

Born :3 February 1930

Harold Brodkey

Born :25 October 1930

Herbert Croly

Tribute :17 May 1930

Harry Mathews

Born :14 February 1930

Chinua Achebe

Born :16 November 1930

Quotes of 1930

Quotes taken from the authors in 1930

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Herbert Croly

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

Herbert Croly

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Herbert Croly

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Herbert Croly

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Herbert Croly

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

Harry Mathews

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Harry Mathews

I love teaching.

Harry Mathews

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

Harry Mathews

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

Harry Mathews

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

Neil Armstrong

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Neil Armstrong

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Neil Armstrong

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Neil Armstrong

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

Neil Armstrong

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Harold Brodkey

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

Harold Brodkey

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

Harold Brodkey

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

Harold Brodkey

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

Harold Brodkey