"Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!"
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Woody Allen quotes (page 16 of 41)
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"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."
"Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime."
"I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead."
"Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety"
"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
"No Matter what you do there will be critics."
"All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that."
"This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store."
"It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off."
"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."
"If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for."
"My grammy never gave gifts, you know. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks."
"Some women feel power is important, some women feel that looks are important, tenderness, intelligence...but sense of humor seems to permeate all of them."
"Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing."
"The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey."
"And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up."
"Marriage is the death of hope."
"Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name."
"Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody."