“Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list.”

“Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.”

Gary Jennings (1928–1999) Novelist

“Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.”

Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet

“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city… you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.”

Samuel R. Delany book Dhalgren

“Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people that believe it was the blacks.”

Sarah Silverman (1970) American comedian and actress

“[on John McCain] I don't need a president with a bucket list!”

Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director

“Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it was in my mom's day, but that water will still probably make you grow a third eye or have mutant children when you grow up.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time
and place we choose. Not them.”

Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

“It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me…”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

“Incompetence at this scale, when they're doing things at this scale, is really dangerous, you could end up on a kill list without knowing what the criteria is to get on there or what the criteria is to get off.”

William Binney former U.S. intelligence official and cryptoanalyst; whistleblower