Last words, before retiring with her husband to a room on the top deck of the RMS Lusitania, as it swiftly sank (7 May 1915) killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard, as quoted by Ernest C. Cowper, in a letter to Hubbard's son Elbert Hubbard II (12 March 1916), published in Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard : His Mintage of Wisdom, Coined from a Life of Love, Laughter and Work (1922).
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195,
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Jimmy Fallon (1974) American TV Personality
In answer the question "Is it easy to write jokes [on Saturday Night Live] about President Bush?", posed in the summer of 2001
Smith, Kerry L. (2001-07-05), "Jimmy Fallon". Rolling Stone. (872):153
Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908) American art historian
As quoted in John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.175, Cambridge University Press
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 7 (p. 76)
“In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.”
Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen <!--accessed: November 17, 2009--> <br class="br">Variant: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. <br class="br">Context: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Hank Green (1980) American vlogger
Homeless Man with a Golden Voice Gets a Job http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-7Qb0rzmno <br class="br">Youtube
