"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact."

George Eliot
(11/22/1819 – 12/22/1880)
US writer

"The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss."

John Nance Garner
(11/22/1868 – 11/07/1967)
US Vice President (32) (see other US VPs)

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

Andre Gide
(11/22/1869 – 02/19/1951)
French writer

"How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese?"

Charles de Gaulle
(11/22/1890 – 11/09/1970)
French president

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom."

Benjamin Britten
(11/22/1913 – 12/04/1976)
English composer

"I take showers, I don't like baths. The last time I took a bath, I lost three of my ships."

Rodney Dangerfield
(11/22/1921 – 10/05/2004)
US comic

"The critical element in selling a service comes in providing support after the sale, because, unlike other types of marketing, the customer can't really try the product until he's already bought it."

Kay Knight Clarke
(11/22/1938 – )
US? marketing expert?

"There's a side of me that always fell for manic things, frenzied, cartoony performances. I always liked sideshows, freakshows. Jerry Lewis was a freakshow... Absolutely grotesque, awful, tasteless. I like things to be tasteless."

Terry Gilliam
(11/22/1940 – )
US comic, actor, animator, director (Monty Python's Flying Circus)

"No one changes the world who isn't obsessed."

Billie Jean King
(11/22/1943 – )
US tennis player

"We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat.'"

Tina Weymouth
(11/22/1950 – )
US bass player (Talking Heads)

"I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice."

Jamie Lee Curtis
(11/22/1958 – )
US actor (daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis; married to Christopher Guest), on film nudity

"I enjoy making things that are different. It makes for a better career. I don't want to do the same thing twice. I love the different roles I've played. I don't ever want to be pigeonholed! That's the great thing about acting—all these different people I can play, as long as audiences are willing to see them. The more different roles I do, the more different roles I will get."

Mariel Hemingway
(11/22/1961 – )
US actor (granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway; sister of Margaux Hemingway)

"I always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through."

Scarlett Johansson
(11/22/1984 – )
US actor 02/19