Quote authors in 1931

Authors of 1931

Born or Deceased in 1931

Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison

Tribute :18 October 1931

Abdul kalam

Abdul kalam

Born :15 October 1931

Whitey Herzog

Whitey Herzog

Born :9 November 1931

Mickey Mantle

Mickey Mantle

Born :20 October 1931

Eddie Mathews

Eddie Mathews

Born :13 October 1931

Willie Mays

Willie Mays

Born :6 March 1931

Ed Parker

Ed Parker

Born :19 March 1931

Bill Shoemaker

Bill Shoemaker

Born :19 August 1931

Dean Smith

Dean Smith

Born :28 February 1931

Ken Venturi

Ken Venturi

Born :15 May 1931

Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme

Born :7 April 1931

David Eddings

David Eddings

Born :7 April 1931

Quotes of 1931

Quotes taken from the authors in 1931

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Thomas Alva Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Thomas Alva Edison

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Thomas Alva Edison

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Thomas Alva Edison

What you are will show in what you do.

Thomas Alva Edison

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

Donald Barthelme

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Donald Barthelme

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.

Donald Barthelme

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

Donald Barthelme

My father was a man of few words.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.