“I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half.”
Gracie Allen (1902–1964) American actress and comedienne
As quoted in Gracie : A Love Story (1988) by George Burns, p. 17
Source: Audrey Hepburn (2002), p. 46
“I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half.”
Gracie Allen (1902–1964) American actress and comedienne
As quoted in Gracie : A Love Story (1988) by George Burns, p. 17
“When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.”
Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942) French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz
Jimmy Hoffa (1913–1982) American labor leader
Source: Hoffa The Real Story (1975), Chapter 7, Gangsters and the "Irish Mafia", p. 128
“I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear…"?!?!”
Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse
Source: The Titan's Curse
“I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.”
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
Assessment of Wrigley Field shouted during batting practice on October 1, 1932, just prior to Game 3 of the World Series, as recalled by Ruth in a February 1944 interview with Chicago Daily News sports editor John Carmichael; as reproduced in "The Sports Parade" by Braven Dryer, in The Los Angeles Times (February 23, 1944), p. A7; and in Babe Ruth's Called Shot: The Myth and Mystery of Baseball's Greatest Home Run https://books.google.com/books?id=JlOsBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80 (2014) by Ed Sherman, p. 80