Interminable Quotes

I`d rather drop dead in my tracks one day than end up in a wheelchair in some nursing home watching interminable replays of The King and I.

Since Helen passed on I can`t find anything; the heart, quite simply, has gone out of everything. Time is interminable, the loneliness is almost unbearable and the only thing that keeps me going is the knowledge that my dear Helen and I will be united again some day. To join Helen is my only ambition. You have my permission to publish that... really, you know dear boy, it`s all just killing time. Please say that. - Radio Times 1972

On finally deciding to leave the role of James Bond after seven 007 movies: I think it was the interminable farewell tour of the variety artists, you know? You can`t keep on saying that you`re not doing any more and then doing another one. So I just had to say that was it. I had done enough. I mean, for the last three I was getting a little restless. But I had an absolute splendid time doing the Bond films. I played a lot of backgammon, managed to steal a lot of wardrobe, and got well paid. Nothing could beat it! -- Interview with author David Giammarco, "For Your Eyes Only: Behind The Scenes of the James Bond Films"

The answer to old age is to keep one`s mind busy and to go on with one`s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.