Quote authors in 1949

Authors of 1949

Born or Deceased in 1949

Lyle Alzado

Lyle Alzado

Born :3 April 1949

Dusty Baker

Dusty Baker

Born :15 June 1949

Vida Blue

Vida Blue

Born :28 July 1949

Bill Buckner

Bill Buckner

Born :14 December 1949

Sam Ewing

Sam Ewing

Born :9 April 1949

George Foreman

George Foreman

Born :10 January 1949

Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes

Born :30 October 1949

Bruce Jenner

Bruce Jenner

Born :28 October 1949

Tom Kite

Tom Kite

Born :9 December 1949

Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt

Born : 1949

Joe Theismann

Joe Theismann

Born :9 September 1949

Tom Watson

Tom Watson

Born :4 September 1949

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd

Born :5 October 1949

Hervey Allen

Hervey Allen

Tribute :28 December 1949

Chris Van Allsburg

Chris Van Allsburg

Born :18 June 1949

Martin Amis

Martin Amis

Born :25 August 1949

Marie Brenner

Marie Brenner

Born :15 December 1949

Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Carroll

Born :26 January 1949

Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow

Born : 1949

Diane Mott Davidson

Diane Mott Davidson

Born :22 March 1949

Boualem Sansal

Boualem Sansal

Born :15 October 1949

Quotes of 1949

Quotes taken from the authors in 1949

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

Give luck a chance to happen.

Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit.

Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes.

Baseball's what I do.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.

When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.