Вуди Аллен: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 8)

“I believe people ought to mate for life… like pigeons or Catholics.”

“You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.”

“You can't ride two horses with one behind.”

“[…] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.”

“I failed to make the chess team because of my height.”

“Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it.”

“I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom… and a moth ate my sports jacket.
He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.”

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.”

“All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.”

“Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?”

“When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.”

“I like the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life.”

“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?”

“Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.”

“I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.”

“You're still in love'
'No I'm not, I'm not She'll always be a part of me, and she's an important person in my life but for the two of us something wasn't working.'
'What element?'
'We never found out”

“I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion…. but it won't get much sleep.”

“Doris: You have no values. With you it's all nihilism, cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.Harry: Hey, in France I could run for office with that slogan, and win!”

“Woody Allen later wrote in a letter: "My observation was that once a person actually completed a play or a novel, he was well on his way to getting it produced or published, as opposed to a vast majority of people who tell me their ambition is to write, but who strike out on the very first level and indeed never write the play or book. In the midst of the conversation, as I’m now trying to recall, I did say that 80 percent of success is showing up."”