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James Patterson342
American author 1947Related quotes
“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
“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
“Max Bialystock: I'm wearing a cardboard belt!”
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
The Producers
“I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.”
Charles Bukowski book Hot Water Music
Source: Hot Water Music
“Well tonight I'm gonna live for today, so come along for the ride,
I hope I'm old before I die.”
Robbie Williams (1974) British singer and entertainer
Old Before I Die
Life Thru a Lens (1997)
“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)
“I'm going to get that bloody bastard if I die in the attempt.”
James Clavell book King Rat
Part 1, Ch. 1, Lt. Grey, First line of the story.
King Rat (1962)