“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.”
Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
2007 Chairman's Letter
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.”
Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer
"Odyssey of Faith" in TIME magazine (6 June 1960) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,874166,00.html
“I'm gonna give all I've got to give
Cross my heart, and I hope to live.”
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) American protest singer and songwriter
"Cross My Heart" http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/cross-my-heart.html <br class="br">Pleasures of the Harbor (1967)
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
“I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (October 14, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Se, depois de eu morrer, quiserem escrever a minha biografia,
Não há nada mais simples.
Tem só duas datas—a da minha nascença e a da minha morte.
Entre uma e outra coisa todos os dias são meus.
Alberto Caeiro (heteronym), "Se, depois de eu morrer" (8 November 1915), trans. Jonathan Griffin.
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“My mission, the mission of my term, is to do everything in order to rebuild hope.”
Isaac Herzog (1960) Israeli politician
Source: Isaac Herzog (2021) cited in " Israel swears in Isaac Herzog as 11th president https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/7/israel-swears-in-isaac-herzog-as-11th-president" on Aljazeera, 7 July 2021.
“Boxing is my life, but my life is not only boxing.”
Vitali Klitschko (1971) Ukrainian boxer and politician
Source: [Афоризми відомих українців, Folio, 2009, 978-966-03-4817-2, Kharkiv, 86, uk]
“Death is a continuation of my life without me…”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …