Which may be another way of saying "Oh wow."Ĭhristopher John Farley is the editorial director of the Wall Street Journal blogs. Inventor Thomas Edison's last words were close in spirit to Jobs's reported exit line.Īccording to various sources, including the book "Edison: Inventing the Century" by Neil Baldwin, hours before his death, Edison emerged from a coma, opened his eyes, looked upwards and said "It is very beautiful over there." Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson, in a recent interview on "60 Minutes," said that in his final encounters with his subject, the Apple founder began to talk more about his thoughts on God and an afterlife.
Simpson, in her essay, suggested that her brother Steve Jobs's last words had something to do with his "capacity for wonderment, the artist's belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later." (On the other hand, Rockne's wife said her husband even noted the phrase in his diary after it happened.) But according to Jack Cavanaugh's book "The Gipper," Hunk Anderson, the last player to have seen Gipp alive, doubts that the football star ever really said that.
#My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to the death movie
Legend has it that Beethoven declared "I shall hear in heaven!"īut how accurate are such reports about the last words of famous figures? Ray Robinson, author of "Famous Last Words, Fond Farewells, Deathbed Diatribes, and Exclamations Upon Expiration," notes in the introduction to his book that "I've come to appreciate the difficulty of authenticating so-called exit lines, since witnesses are often too distraught or confused to remember things accurately, or simply choose to edit or improve the remarks for the sake of posterity."įor example, in 1920, the dying Notre Dame football player George Gipp was supposed to have told football coach Knute Rockne to ask one of his teams to "win one for the Gipper"-a phrase that Ronald Reagan, who played Gipp in the movie "Knute Rockne, All American," later adopted for his political career. One or the other of us has to go." (Although widely cited as his last words, according to the biography "Oscar Wilde" by Richard Ellmann, he actually said this many days before his death.) Indeed, the playwright spoke in aphorisms on his deathbed when he stated through fevers, My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of the last things Oscar Wilde said before his death was "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Wilde peppered the play with aphorisms, those pithy witticisms that purportedly derive from exalted thought. Sigmund Freud reportedly remarked "Now it's nothing but torture and makes no sense anymore."
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