Quote authors in 1940

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Authors of 1940

Born or Deceased in 1940

John Lennon

Born :9 October 1940

Russell banks

Born :28 March 1940

John Havlicek

Born :8 April 1940

Jack Nicklaus

Born :21 January 1940

Tony Oliva

Born :20 July 1940

Merlin Olsen

Born :15 September 1940

Wilma Rudolph

Born :23 June 1940

Willie Stargell

Born :6 March 1940

Fran Tarkenton

Born :3 February 1940

Joe Torre

Born :18 July 1940

Frank Zappa

Born :21 December 1940

Paul Arden

Born :7 April 1940

Peter Benchley

Born :8 May 1940

Quotes of 1940

Quotes taken from the authors in 1940

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

John Lennon

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.

John Lennon

I believe time wounds all heels.

John Lennon

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

John Lennon

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?

John Lennon

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

John Havlicek

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.

Russell banks

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

Russell banks

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.

Russell banks

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

Russell banks

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

Russell banks

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

Peter Benchley

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

Peter Benchley

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

Peter Benchley

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Peter Benchley

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

Peter Benchley

Television isn't my career. Business is.

Fran Tarkenton

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

Fran Tarkenton

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Fran Tarkenton

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

Fran Tarkenton