Allen Quotes

Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard. ~ Woody Allen

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself. ~ Harry Allen Overstreet

I myself don't like to speak to the actors at all. I like to hire great people and let them do their thing. I don't like to speak to them. I don't like to have lunch with them. I don't like to socialize with them. I don't like to hear their ideas. ~ Woody Allen

If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody. ~ Woody Allen

Look at your life as an experiment. Make a comprise with all your doubts and fears: For a year or two, do what you can to move toward your ideal scene, in a easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way. See what happens. ~ Mark Allen

Striving is stealing our joy, our moments. ~ Jennie Allen

Money tends to take on and maintain the characteristics in which it is acquired. ~ Allen Dominique

Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self analysis, and experience. ~ James Allen

There was a long-ago saying that was still heard from time to time in town: Waverleys know where to find the truth, they just can't stomach it. Bay ~ Sarah Addison Allen

He was my comfort. He was my solace. Nearly everything I had faced in my young life, I had gotten through because of him, because he was always there for me, with soft words and a tender heart.
-Kiera Allen ~ S.C. Stephens

As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind. ~ William Allen White

I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer. ~ Woody Allen

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings. ~ Allen Sapp

The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success. ~ David Allen

I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery. ~ Ted Allen

What a waste of headspace. What a waste of consciousness. What an insult to every person struggling with illness or poverty or homelessness. What a diss to the sunshine and the sky and the birdsong and to any number of small pleasures or preoccupations that could have more joyfully and usefully occupied space … ~ Lily Allen

Son, this is a Washington, D.C. kind of lie. It's when the other person knows you're lying, and also knows you know he knows. ~ Allen Drury

Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life. ~ Mitt Romney

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down. ~ Gracie Allen

Sometimes you get the sense that the Creator is getting to that point of Yeah, we might have to reboot. ~ Tim Allen

Probably in all our history no foe has been so detested as were the Japanese. Emotions forgotten since our most savage Indian wars were reawakened. ~ Allen Nevins

Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first. ~ Tim Allen

I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song. ~ Hoodie Allen

Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks. ~ Richard V. Allen

Nothing is Impossible; there are just some things we haven't achieved yet ~ Allen Filson

The Lord never gets tired of forgiving. "Never," Francis said. "We are the ones who get tired of asking him for forgiveness. ~ John L. Allen Jr.

I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers ~ Woody Allen

One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes. ~ Richard Allen Epstein

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about. ~ George Allen, Sr.

While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manufacturing our own prerequisites. The non-operative journey and the objection to it illustrate just one area in which we need to open our thinking to other journeys while expecting that others respect our own. - Mercedes Allen ~ Kate Bornstein

When a man is driving in a car and looks out the window and notices a woman with a great body, as he strains to check her face out, how does she know to keep turning so the back of her head is always toward him? ~ Woody Allen

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because what "doing" would look like, and where it happens, hasn't been decided. In ~ David Allen

My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life. ~ Woody Allen

You know, the guys there were so beautiful - they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago. ~ Allen Ginsberg

In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable. ~ James Van Allen

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others. ~ William Allen White

Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs. ~ Fred Allen

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts. ~ James Allen

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves. ~ Woody Allen

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life. ~ Woody Allen

God has no shortage of liberating ideas. ~ Allen Ratta

She danced so curving, lissom,
like the laughter of the song.
She sent resounding into spaace
and down the ages long. ~ Tui Allen

Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life. ~ Allen Ginsberg

The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page. ~ Debbie Allen

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months. ~ Karen Allen

If only this mist would clear, it would be a lovely day," she said faintly.
"And if only the clouds would thicken up it would be a miserable day," Mr. Allen contributed from behind the paper. "It is what it is. ~ Val McDermid

I am at two with nature. ~ Woody Allen

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent. ~ Allen West

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up. ~ Kris Allen

He's so small, he's a waste of skin. ~ Fred Allen

After working with Woody Allen, sharing screen space with De Niro was a dream come true. ~ Anupam Kher

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction. ~ Paula Gunn Allen

Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself ... 'How did I get through all of that? ~ Charles L. Allen

Our fascination with the outlaw, the killer, the meth dealer, is emblematic of a pretty embarrassing problem: we trim the fat of evil. We size it up, add a glitter to it never present in reality, and make it pretty for the cameras. It looks more boring and crude than anything else, so we give it a tummy tuck. ~ John Thomas Allen

Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty. ~ Woody Allen

She wished she had known back then. Known that happiness isn't a point in time you leave behind. It's what's ahead of you. Every single day. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen. ~ Ashley Madekwe

This item belongs to Mrs. Granger and she may call it anything she likes.
-With love from Nicholas Allen ~ Andrew Clements

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned. ~ Woody Allen

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession. ~ Charles L. Allen

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor. And he's classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities. ~ Ezra Miller

I do not wish to escape to myself, I wish to escape from myself. I wish to obliterate my consciousness and my knowledge of independent existence, my guilts, my secretiveness. ~ Allen Ginsberg

Why ruin a good story with the truth? ~ Woody Allen

Chapter 1.
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion...no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yeah. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.'

Uh, no let me start this over.

'Chapter 1.
He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles...'.

Ah, corny, too corny for my taste. Can we ... can we try and make it more profound?

'Chapter 1.
He adored New York City. For him, it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. The same lack of individual integrity that caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning the town of his dreams in...'

No, that's going to be too preachy. I mean, you know, let's face it, I want to sell some books here.

'Chapter 1.
He adored New York City, although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. How hard it was to exist in a society desensitized by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage...'

Too angry, I don't want to be angry.

'Chapter 1.
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.'Woody Allen

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