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"The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world."
Thomas Shadwell
(?/1642
11/19/1692)
English writer
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."
Billy Sunday
(11/19/1862
11/06/1935)
US evangelist
(same dates as Gene Tierney)
"I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem."
Fitz-Greene Halleck
(07/08/1790
11/19/1867)
US writer
"The computer is a moron."
Peter F. Drucker
(11/19/1909
11/11/2005)
Austrian educator, writer, management consultant
"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten."
Indira Gandhi
(11/19/1917
10/31/1984)
Indian politician
(daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru)
"Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test."
Gene Tierney
(11/19/1920
11/06/1991)
US actor
(was married to Oleg Cassini;
same dates as Billy Sunday)
"I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up."
Larry King
(11/19/1933
01/23/2021)
US radio and TV host
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
Dick Cavett
(11/19/1936
)
US television host
"If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect."
Ted Turner
(11/19/1938
)
US zillionaire
(was married to Jane Fonda)
"Years ago, one casting agent told me that the only roles I could play were lesbians and aliens."
Allison Janney
(11/19/1959
)
US actor
, on her height (6'0")
"It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols."
Meg Ryan
(11/19/1961
)
US actor
(was married to Dennis Quaid;
was engaged to John Mellencamp)
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
Jodie Foster
(11/19/1962
)
US actor
"Television is the first truly democratic culturethe first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
Clive Barnes
(05/13/1927
11/19/2008)
English critic
"No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north."
Mike Nichols
(11/06/1931
11/19/2015)
German-US director, producer, comic
(was married to Diane Sawyer)
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