“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
Source: The Color of Magic
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Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
The joke about immortality also appears in On Being Funny (1975)
In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine from April 9, 1987, Allen said "Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people, and I said I would prefer to live on in my apartment."
Source: The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)
“Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Sag etwas, das sich von selbst versteht, zum ersten Mal und du bist unsterblich.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 19.
George Sarton (1884–1956) American historian of science
Preface.
A History of Science Vol.1 Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece (1952)
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”
William Shakespeare Twelfth Night
Malvolio, Act II, scene v.
Variant: Some are born great, others achieve greatness.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.”
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian
As quoted in Book of Humorous Quotations (1998), by Connie Robertson, p. 29.
Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973) American and French sculptor
Source: Jacques Lipchitz: The Artist at Work, 1966, p. 189