“You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter to Cassandra (1808-06-15) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter to Cassandra (1808-06-15) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Bill Maher book New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
"Valentine's Day, that great state holiday" in The Boston Globe (14 February 2004) http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/02/14/valentines_day_that_great_state_holiday <br class="br">Source: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
K. S. Lal (1920–2002) Indian historian
Studies in Medieval Indian History (1966)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
Essay on Mitford's History of Greece (1824)
“When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Other
“What did I do?" he said. "Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Last Breath
Ian Holloway (1963) English association football player and manager
On Tony Pulis's style of management. Mirror Football, 10 December 2010 <br class="br"> Holloway uses bizarre cake analogy for Pulis' Stoke style, Mirror Football, 2010-12-11, Jeremy, Butler, 2010-12-10 http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Stoke-v-Blackpool-Ian-Holloway-blasts-critics-of-Tony-Pulis-style-by-using-a-bizarre-cake-analogy-article648761.html, <br class="br">Sourced quotes