November 29

"He that useth many words for the explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttle fish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink."

John Ray
(11/29/1627 – 01/17/1705)
English naturalist

"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains."

Wendell Phillips
(11/29/1811 – 02/02/1884)
US abolitionist

"Housekeeping ain't no joke."

Louisa May Alcott
(11/29/1832 – 03/06/1888)
US writer

"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking of something else."

Horace Greeley
(02/03/1811 – 11/29/1872)
US writer

"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it, hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart."

C. S. Lewis
(11/29/1898 – 11/22/1963)
Irish writer (died near his birthday)

"...colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances... Is this not form?"

Giacomo Puccini
(12/22/1858 – 11/29/1924)
Italian composer

"I owe everything I do to my normal childhood."

Peter Bergman
(11/29/1939 – )
US comic, actor, writer (Firesign Theatre)

"I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know."

Garry Shandling
(11/29/1949 – )
US comic, actor

"There are four departments. There's the executive, and the legislative, and the judicial, and—the Bill of Rights."

Kenneth Wherry
(02/28/1892 – 11/29/1951)
US Senator (NE)

"There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."

Enrico Fermi
(09/29/1901 – 11/29/1954)
Italian physicist

"If you eat right and you exercise and you get breast implants, you can look like us."

Gena Lee Nolin
(11/29/1971 – )
US actor (Baywatch)

"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."

Dorothy Day
(11/08/1897 – 11/29/1980)
US editor, activist

"You know what I want? I want yesterday."

Natalie Wood
(07/20/1938 – 11/29/1981)
US actor

"OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU?"

Cary Grant
(01/18/1904 – 11/29/1986)
US actor (was married to Dyan Cannon) , responding to a telegram "HOW OLD CARY GRANT?"

"One day in Hollywood I read a script in which the character was described as 'charming but dull—a typical Ralph Bellamy type'. I promptly headed for New York to find a part with guts."

Ralph Bellamy
(06/17/1904 – 11/29/1991)
US actor

"I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move."

Coleman Young
(05/24/1918 – 11/29/1997)
US mayor (Detroit)

"A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank."

John Berry
(09/06/1917 – 11/29/1999)
US writer, director

"I'd join a band with John Lennon anyday, but I wouldn't join a band with Paul McCartney."

George Harrison
(02/24/1943 – 11/29/2001)
English musician, singer, songwriter (Beatles)