Quote authors in 1940

Authors of 1940

Born or Deceased in 1940

John Lennon

John Lennon

Born :9 October 1940

Russell banks

Russell banks

Born :28 March 1940

John Havlicek

John Havlicek

Born :8 April 1940

Jack Nicklaus

Jack Nicklaus

Born :21 January 1940

Tony Oliva

Tony Oliva

Born :20 July 1940

Merlin Olsen

Merlin Olsen

Born :15 September 1940

Wilma Rudolph

Wilma Rudolph

Born :23 June 1940

Willie Stargell

Willie Stargell

Born :6 March 1940

Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton

Born :3 February 1940

Joe Torre

Joe Torre

Born :18 July 1940

Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Born :21 December 1940

Paul Arden

Paul Arden

Born :7 April 1940

Peter Benchley

Peter Benchley

Born :8 May 1940

Quotes of 1940

Quotes taken from the authors in 1940

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

I believe time wounds all heels.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.

I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job.

The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.

It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.

They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.