Quote authors in 1950

Authors of 1950

Born or Deceased in 1950

Julius Erving

Julius Erving

Born :22 February 1950

Franco Harris

Franco Harris

Born :7 March 1950

Julius Lrving

Julius Lrving

Born :22 February 1950

Harvey Martin

Harvey Martin

Born :16 November 1950

Dan Quisenberry

Dan Quisenberry

Born :7 February 1950

Mark Spitz

Mark Spitz

Born :10 February 1950

Jack Youngblood

Jack Youngblood

Born :26 January 1950

David Brin

David Brin

Born :6 October 1950

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tribute :19 March 1950

John Byrne

John Byrne

Born :6 July 1950

Bebe Moore Campbell

Bebe Moore Campbell

Born :18 February 1950

Quotes of 1950

Quotes taken from the authors in 1950

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

I think my work has become more interesting, well to me anyway.

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.