“Going to Ford's Theatre to watch the play is like going to Hooters for the food.”
Sarah Vowell book Assassination Vacation
Source: Assassination Vacation (2005), p. 21
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“Going to Ford's Theatre to watch the play is like going to Hooters for the food.”
Sarah Vowell book Assassination Vacation
Source: Assassination Vacation (2005), p. 21
Philip Pullman book Northern Lights
Variant: Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
Source: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 21 : Lord Asriel's Welcome
David Zabriskie (1979) road bicycle racer
"Riding the Tour De Vegetable" https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304314404576414124184873028, interview with The Wall Street Journal (29 June 2011).
“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die”
Jack Kerouac book Visions of Cody
In the loneliness of my life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother far away, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our death, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid...
Visions of Cody (1960)
“Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Interviewed in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday, December 1976, as quoted in Newsweek Vol. 88, p. 157
1970s
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
As quoted in "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'" by Ian Sample, in The Guardian (15 May 2011) http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven <br class="br">Context: I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first... I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
Sojourner Truth (1797–1883) African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
“When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies… I'm gonna play and dance and sing.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist