6 Woody Allen Quotes on History

Woody Allen quotes on history

8. I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

12. As a filmmaker, I'm not interested in 9/11 [...] it's too small, history overwhelms it. The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other. Political questions, if you go back thousands of years, are ephemeral, not important. History is the same thing over and over again.

33. Sonja: 'Violence is justified in the service of mankind!' Boris: Who said that? Sonja: Attila the Hun! Boris: You're quoting a Hun to me?

42. Boris: I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If he was a carpenter, I wondered what he charged for bookshelves.

103. As we know, for centuries Rome regarded the Open Hot Turkey Sandwich as the height of licentiousness.

105. Bidnick gorges himself on Viagra, but the dosage makes him hallucinate and causes him to imagine he is Pliny the Elder.