Is that from Goldeneye?
“Texas…Texas…Margaret.”
- Sam Houston
“It is finished.”
- Jesus of Nazareth
“Quien est? Quien est?”
- Billy the Kid
and…
Erm…make that:
“Quien es? Quien es?”
- Billy the Kid
Erm…make that:
“Quien es? Quien es?”
- Billy the Kid
…people say “I can’t breathe” all the time before they obviously lose their breath.
Tallulah Bankhead: "Codeine . . . bourbon . . . "
Joan Crawford (to her bedside nurse): “Don’t you dare pray for me.”
Actually, I was humming the song I Am Woman (Hear Me Roar) 
Well, according to Paul McCartney in his song ‘Picasso’s Last Words,’ the “grand old painter” said “Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can’t drink anymore” right before he kicked the bucket.
I think I remember reading somewhere that Dustin Hoffman said that the lines would make a good song, and the ex-Beatle whipped the tune up on the spot.
I think his last words were, “You may fire when ready.”
“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!” * Captain Ahab *
“from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee” Khaaaaaaan
“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” Richard III
“Willow, tit-willow, tit-willow” The Tit-willow, The Mikado
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done: it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” Sidney Carton
“Good afternoon, I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on the 12th of January 1992. my instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it, I could sing it for you. . . . It’s called ‘Daisy.’ Dai-sy, Dai-sy, give me your answer true. I’m half cra-zy o-ver the love of you. It won’t be a sty-lish mar-riage. I can’t afford a car-riage—” HAL
"It is the end … but the moment has been prepared for " The 4th Doctor
" I never took the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution? … I have been and always shall be your friend. Live long and prosper. " Spock
“Rosebud” Charles foster Kane
Hmm. You’re half right. I did some flipping around in the library (you’d think I’d remember to get titles to cite, but… eh). After a series of strokes, he was lying either asleep or comatose (accounts vary, but evidently it wasn’t much of a coma) when the nurse said that he was better than usual. His doctor’s account says that he did not open his eyes, but said, quite clearly, one word, “Tvertimot” (“On the contrary”). He died a few hours later, around 2:30 that afternoon, without stirring or speaking again.
Sorry for the inaccuracy.
Hamlet, the blabbermouth Dane that couldn’t shut up:
“The rest is silence.”
Which reminds me, how can you tell when a lawyer is dead? He lies still.
Captain Lawrence “Titus” Oates was a member of Robert Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1912. After reaching the pole, only to find they had been beaten by Roald Amundsen, the team met with unusually fierce weather on their return. They had already lost one man of the five-man team, and were running low on provisions. Oates was in bad shape, and realizing that a sacrifice would be necessary to give the others a chance at survival, he walked out into the blizzard, saying “I am just going outside and may be some time.”
The rest of the team died less than two weeks later.
“Vae, puto deus fio.” (“Oh dear, I think I am becoming a god.”) – The Emperor Vespasian
Another ironic military quote, from Gen. George Armstrong Custer:
“Hurrah, boys, hurrah! We’ve got them right where we want them!”
This one left me in tears. What bugs me is how many people know this line, but how few people know its significance.
If memory serves :
“That was a heck of a game of golf, fellas.” - Bing Crosby.
One I hadn’t known until last year:
Optical Engineer Edgar Derry Tillyer, the Grand Old Man of American Optical:
As he lay comatose in the local hospital a doctor looked in and said “So is this the great Doctor Tillyer, with 100 patents?”
Without waking, the thought-to-be oblivious Tillyer growled out:
“Two hundred!”
(He actually had about 150, but who’s going to correct you on your deathbed?)
Alfred Jarry’s last words(author of “Ubu Roi” and “Pataphysics”) were supposed to be:
“Bring me a toothpick”
Gertrude Stein: “What is the answer?” After receiving no response: “In that case, what is the question?”
Lord Palmerston: “Die, my dear doctor? That is the last thing I shall do.”
“The world is bobbing around me.” Sam Bass, Texas Outlaw.
“This is funny” Doc Holliday, Old West gambler/gunfighter
“Suppose, suppose…” Wyatt Earp, Old West gambler/lawman
“Drive the crowd away.” Billy Clanton, outlaw shot in the O.K. Corral gunfight
“There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I’ll swear that I can’t see it that way…” Bat Masterson, Old West lawman. Bat became a writer for the New York Morning Telegraph and died at his desk from a heart attack after writing those words.
“No rendirse, muchachos!” Col. William Travis, died at the Alamo. (the phrase translates to “Don’t surrender, boys!”)
“Texas—Texas! Margaret.” Sam Houston, first President of the Republic of Texas