November 20

"There is a time for all things—except marriage, my dear."

Thomas Chatterton
(11/20/1752 – 08/24/1770)
English writer

"If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it."

Norman Thomas
(11/20/1884 – 12/19/1968)
US social reformer

"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."

Alistair Cooke
(11/20/1908 – 03/29/2004)
English cultural commentator

"You drive for show, but putt for dough."

Bobby Locke
(11/20/1917 – 03/09/1987)
S. African golfer

"Get picked while you're fresh as dew. Bubble in Hunt's seven spices until you're bursting with flower. Sparkle and shine in a bright new bottle, until some smart hamburger teams up with you. Then people will never forget you. You'll be ketchup with the big tomato taste. Hunts."

"Sister" Corita Kent
(11/20/1918 – 09/18/1986)
US artist

"I always took up with the man of the moment—and there were many such moments."

Evelyn Keyes
(11/20/1919 – 07/04/2008)
US actor (was married to Charles Vidor, John Huston, and Artie Shaw)

"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

Nadine Gordimer
(11/20/1923 – )
S. African writer

"One-fifth of the people are against everything all of the time."

Robert F. Kennedy
(11/20/1925 – 06/06/1968)
US royalty (son of Rose and Joseph P., brother of John and Teddy Kennedy)

"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."

Augustine Birrell
(01/19/1850 – 11/20/1933)
English politician, scholar

"Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about."

R. W. "Johnny" Apple
(11/20/1934 – 10/04/2006)
US journalist

"I was in Dallas with my backup band and a beautician, and a white woman done fainted! She looked at me and said 'Lawdy', and down she went. I asked 'How come she fainted? I don't look that bad, do I?' and they said 'Esquirita, it's the first time they've seen anything like you.'"

Esquirita
(11/20/1935 – 10/23/1986)
US singer

"Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."

Dom Delillo
(11/20/1936 – )
US writer

"The vice-presidency is not a job designed to enhance your standing."

Joe Biden
(11/20/1942 – )
US Vice President (47) (see other US Vice Presidents)

"Just rock on, and have you a good time."

Duane Allman
(11/20/1946 – 10/29/1971)
US musician (brother of Gregg Allman) , advice

"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping."

Bo Derek
(11/20/1954 – )
US actor

"It's a great little book."

Sean Young
(11/20/1959 – )
US actor , on the Bible

"I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either."

Allan Sherman
(11/30/1924 – 11/20/1973)
US comic

"I fiddle in the corner where they throw the coins. Where I can get my work done."

Robert Altman
(02/20/1925 – 11/20/2006)
US film director