"The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world."

Thomas Shadwell
(?/1642 – 11/19/1692)
English writer
James Abram Garfield "Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."

James A. Garfield
(11/19/1831 – 09/19/1881)
US President (20) (see all US Presidents)
"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
Fitz-Greene Halleck "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
Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck "My favorite American lesbian."

Clifton Webb
(11/19/1891 – 10/13/1966)
US actor , on Barbara Stanwyck
"The computer is a moron."

Peter F. Drucker
(11/19/1909 – 11/11/2005)
Austrian educator, writer, management consultant
Indira Priyadarshini "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)
Gene Eliza Tierney "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
Marcel Proust "If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

Marcel Proust
(07/10/1871 – 11/19/1922)
French writer
"Look, I don't even agree with myself at times."

Jeanne Kirkpatrick
(11/19/1926 – 12/07/2006)
US diplomat
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"

Dick Cavett
(11/19/1936 – )
US television guy
"If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect."

Ted Turner
(11/19/1938 – )
US zillionaire (was married to Jane Fonda)
Allison Janney "One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress."

Allison Janney
(11/19/1959 – )
US actor
Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra "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)
Alicia Christian Foster "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

Jodie Foster
(11/19/1962 – )
US actor
Christina Onassis "Happiness is not based on money and the greatest proof of that is our family."

Christina Onassis
(12/11/1950 – 11/19/1988)
US rich girl (daughter of Aristotle Onassis)
Dick Wilson "With the kind of pictures they're making today, I'll stick with toilet paper."

Dick Wilson
(07/30/1916 – 11/19/2007)
US actor
"Television is the first truly democratic culture—the 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