“Michelle Pfeiffer. I think she is really hot. But I had to settle for Miss Gouda 1962.”
Johan Derksen (1949) football player
Nieuwe Revue (2007-09-03)
Source: As quoted in "Net Impact: One man's cyber-crusade against Russian corruption" http://archive.is/FGqQE (4 April 2011), by Julia Ioffe, The New Yorker
“Michelle Pfeiffer. I think she is really hot. But I had to settle for Miss Gouda 1962.”
Johan Derksen (1949) football player
Nieuwe Revue (2007-09-03)
Murray Walker (1923) Motorsport commentator and journalist
Oliver Owen (July 1, 2007) "The Observer: Silverstone British Grand Prix 2007: Murray Walker Interview: Mint Condition", The Observer.
Interviews
“I really began to miss family and friends not to mention baked beans!”
Katie Melua (1984) British singer-songwriter
Context: I spend eight to nine months working abroad and cram in a holiday when I have the odd week off. This year, three of those months were spent in America playing gigs with my band, so we got to visit all kinds of places from Arizona to New York. After a few weeks, I really began to miss family and friends not to mention baked beans!
“I’m sorry Mr. Stanton, really I am. I didn’t mean to miss it. Things…happened.”
M. K. Hobson (1969) American writer
“Oh, well. Things happened. How nice to have that cleared up.”
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 5, “Dreadnought” (p. 65)
Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist
Interview with the San Francisco Bay Guardian (2002-10-30)
Dennis Potter (1935–1994) English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist
Barton incriminates Pringle, who has bullied him, in the crime of destroying the class's daffodil; the daffodil was actually destroyed by Barton himself.
Stand up, Nigel Barton (1965)
“I have made up my mind to like no novels really, but Miss Edgeworth's, yours and my own.”
Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) Irish writer
Jane Austen, letter to her niece, Anna Lefroy, 1814; cited from Valerie Grosvenor Myer Jane Austen, Obstinate Heart (New York: Arcade, 1997) p. 196.
Criticism