The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

[cAstAgeAr]

Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire.
(Farewell, my friends! I go to glory!)
~~ Isadora Duncan, dancer, d. 1927

[cAstAgeAr]

Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Last letter to her husband before her last flight.
KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low.
Last radio communiquà before her disappearance.
~~ Amelia Earhart, d. 1937

[cAstAgeAr]

It is very beautiful over there.
~~ Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, d. October 18, 1931

[cAstAgeAr]

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.
~~ Edward VII, King of Britain, d. 1910

[cAstAgeAr]

All my possessions for a moment of time.
~~ Elizabeth I, Queen of England, d. 1603

[cAstAgeAr]

I've never felt better.
~~ Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, d. December 12, 1939

[cAstAgeAr]

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.
~~ Richard Feynman, physicist, d. 1988

[cAstAgeAr]

I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
~~ Errol Flynn, actor, d. October 14, 1959

[cAstAgeAr]

A dying man can do nothing easy.
~~ Benjamin Franklin, statesman, d. April 17, 1790

[cAstAgeAr]

Come my little one, and give me your hand.
Spoken to his daughter, Ottilie.
~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, d. March 22, 1832

[cAstAgeAr]

I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier.
~~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, d. October 9, 1967

[cAstAgeAr]

Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.
When asked if he thought dying was tough.
~~ Edmund Gwenn, actor, d. September 6, 1959

[cAstAgeAr]

God will pardon me, that's his line of work.
~~ Heinrich Heine, poet, d. February 15, 1856

[cAstAgeAr]

Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark.
~~ O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), writer, d. June 4, 1910

[cAstAgeAr]

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!
~~ Henry VIII, King of England, d. 1547