Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Variant: I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
On success of the show Orange Is the New Black, interviewed in: — December 4, 2014, Jason Biggs: I always win, The Belfast Telegraph, Heat magazine, June 15, 2014 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/jason-biggs-i-always-win-30355396.html,
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Variant: I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Life doesn't just happen to you; you
receive everything in your life based on what you've given.”
Rhonda Byrne (1951) Australian writer and producer
Hans Christian von Baeyer (1938) American physicist
von Baeyer did not originate the quip about time, which dates back at least as far as the 1929 book "The Man Who Mastered Time" by Ray Cummings, where it appears on p. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=YdZEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22everything+from+happening+at+once%22#search_anchor. <br class="br">Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 14, Noise, Nuisance and necessity, p. 127-128
Bernard Goldberg (1945) American journalist
Response to a student asking if he ever met a conservative who became a liberal. <br class="br"> Goldberg Predicts Collapse of Liberal Media http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/11/132345.shtml Newsmax.com. Phil Brennan (April 11, 2003)
“Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.”
Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer
Source: C is for Corpse
Tiger Woods (1975) American professional golfer
Tiger Woods,ref; St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture by D. Byron Painter http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201328
Hilda Lewis (1896–1974) British writer
Source: The Ship that Flew (1939), Ch. 2 : And Continues