Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
Actor Real Name Boris Karloff William Henry Pratt Cary Grant Archibald Leach Edward G. Robinson Emmanual Goldenburg Gene Wilder Gerald Silberman John Wayne Marion Morrison Kirk Douglas Issur Danielovitch Richard Burton Richard Jenkins Jr. Roy Rogers Leonard Slye Woody Allen Allen Stewart Konigsberg | |
It's from Casablanca. I've been waiting all my life to use that line. -- Woody Allen, "Play It Again, Sam" | |
Notes for a ballet, "The Spell": ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ... Sigmund is astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part woman -- unfortunately, divided lengthwise. She enchants Sigmund, who is careful not to make any poultry jokes. -- Woody Allen | |
Regarding astral projection, Woody Allen once wrote, "This is not a bad way to travel, although there is usually a half-hour wait for luggage." | |
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. - Woody Allen | |
"To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition." -- Woody Allen | |
"Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God -- I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again." -- Woody Allen's character in "Hannah and Her Sisters" | |
"Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends." --Woody Allen | |
"I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens." -- Woody Allen | |
Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors. -- Woody Allen | |
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. -- Woody Allen | |
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. -- Woody Allen | |
In California they don't throw their garbage away -- they make it into television shows. -- Woody Allen, "Annie Hall" | |
The only cultural advantage LA has over NY is that you can make a right turn on a red light. -- Woody Allen | |
It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. -- Woody Allen | |
More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody Allen, "Side Effects" | |
Actor: So what do you do for a living? Doris: I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants. -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers" | |
All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates. -- Woody Allen | |
As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. -- Woody Allen | |
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. -- Woody Allen | |
Humorists always sit at the children's table. -- Woody Allen | |
I am two with nature. -- Woody Allen | |
I don't want to live on in my work, I want to live on in my apartment. -- Woody Allen | |
I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers -- they're going to make a game out of it. -- Woody Allen | |
I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. -- Woody Allen | |
I was the best I ever had. -- Woody Allen | |
I'm going to give my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes. -- Woody Allen | |
I'm not afraid of death -- I just don't want to be there when it happens. -- Woody Allen | |
If only Dionysus were alive! Where would he eat? -- Woody Allen | |
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers" | |
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. -- Woody Allen | |
In America today ... we have Woody Allen, whose humor has become so sophisticated that nobody gets it any more except Mia Farrow. All those who think Mia Farrow should go back to making movies where the devil gets her pregnant and Woody Allen should go back to dressing up as a human sperm, please raise your hands. Thank you. -- Dave Barry, "Why Humor is Funny" | |
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen | |
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. -- Woody Allen | |
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. -- Woody Allen, "Annie Hall" | |
Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God -- I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again. -- Woody Allen, "Hannah and Her Sisters" | |
Showing up is 80% of life. -- Woody Allen | |
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers" | |
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers" | |
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen, "Side Effects" | |
My brain is my second favorite organ. -- Woody Allen | |
My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs. -- Woody Allen, on Epistemology | |
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen | |
You're always thinking you're gonna be the one that makes 'em act different. -- Woody Allen, "Manhattan" | |
Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers. -- Woody Allen | |
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. -- Woody Allen | |
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen | |
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? -- Woody Allen | |
I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. Well, what we have on our hands here is a dead shark. -- Woody Allen |