A Quote by Woody Allen

Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Woody Allen

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Woody Allen
American - Director
Born: December 1, 1935

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Terry Pratchett

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

William De Morgan

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.

Woody Allen

I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Woody Allen

Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

Jewel

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

Hannah Arendt

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

Rachel Maddow

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Dalai Lama

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

Thomas Beecham

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

Emily Dickinson

The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and inspire, that is eternal. So, in that respect, we do achieve immortality, and that makes me less fearful.

Madonna Ciccone

Those trying to drag me down through piracy, I want to tell them that I will somehow achieve what I want. I am focused enough to achieve what I want and give the audience what I can.