Quotes & Jokes by Woody Allen / page 11

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Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. Oh, I love this. New York was his town, and it always would be.

In the event of war, I'm a hostage.

I can’t enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening.

Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of my people, and I said I would like to live on in my apartment.

I feel like we’re in a Noel Coward play. Someone should be making martinis.

When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.

You can't ride two horses with one behind.

Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Man was made in God`s image. Do you really think God has red hair and glasses?

At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals.