“There's a somebody I'm longing to see,
I hope that he, turns out to be,
someone to watch over me.”
Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) American lyricist
60 seconds interview by Bel Jacobs, November 17, 2003 http://www.metro.co.uk/metro/interviews/interview.html?in_page_id=8&in_interview_id=707 <br class="br">Responding to a suggestion that he picked up an American accent.
“There's a somebody I'm longing to see,
I hope that he, turns out to be,
someone to watch over me.”
Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) American lyricist
John Bunyan book Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666)
Context: About this time... in a Dream or Vision, presented to me. I saw, as if they were set on The Sunny side of some high Mountain, there refreshing themselves with the pleasant beams of the Sun, while I was shivering and shrinking in the Cold, afflicted with Frost, Snow, and dark Clouds. Methought, also, betwixt me and them, I saw a wall that did compass about this mountain; now, through this wall my soul did greatly desire to pass; concluding, that if I could, I would go even into the very midst of them, and there also comfort myself with the heat of their Sun.... At the last, I saw... a narrow gap, like a little doorway in the Wall, through which I attempted to pass. Now the passage being very strait and narrow... I was well nigh quite beat out, by striving to get in... Then was I exceeding glad, and went and sat down in the midst of them, and so was comforted with the light and heat of their Sun.
William the Silent (1533–1584) stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, leader of the Dutch Revolt
William writing to his brother Louis, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 10
Youn Yuh-jung (1947) South Korean actress
Lauren, Ro, Living Like a Legend with Minari’s Yuh-Jung Youn, A24 Films, 2021-04-13, 2021-06-08 https://a24films.com/notes/2021/04/how-to-live-well-according-to-yuh-jung-youn-1,
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Source: quoted in Lillian Ross's profile of Hemingway, which first appeared in the The New Yorker (13 May 1950). The profile was later published as a short book titled Portrait of Hemingway (1961). Variant:
I started out very quiet and I beat Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.
Context: I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I’ve fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody’s going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I’m crazy or I keep getting better.
Roger Federer (1981) Swiss tennis player
David Ferrer, after losing to Federer in the 2014 Cincinnati Masters final. http://www.thesportreview.com/tsr/2014/08/cincinnati-masters-fearsome-federer-cuts-down-ferrer-again-for-80th-title/
Ta-Nehisi Coates (1975) writer, journalist, and educator
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Joe Biden Shouldn’t Be President, Democracy Now (20 June 2019)
Stella Vine (1969) English artist
Catherine Deveney, "Stripped bare", http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=288312004 The Scotsman, (2004-03-14)