Zero Gravity Quotes

“La Caravelle, La Grenouille, Orsini’s. What dining experiences with this family. And who knew from palate cleansers? At Lutèce, Lulu insisted he taste escargot.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“Wait," I gurgled, pivoting his delivery leeward. "That's not the newspaper. The sign says Philadelphia Art Museum." There was by then a clanging report as the errant brick smashed with major league velocity into a bronze statue that graced the museum's green lawn, severing the masterpiece's nose like a no-frills rhinoplasty.
"Hey," I bellowed, surveying the damage. "Look what you did to Sylvester Stallone.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“He couldn’t bear the thought that she would want to go to an orgy, much less with or without him.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“You look extra beautiful. What the character Charlie in my play calls cripplingly beautiful.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“She bought him a leather-bound edition of Miss Julie and inscribed it “To Jerry, You only live once. If you’re a schlemiel, twice won’t help. Love, Lulu.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“Mrs. Vreeland always said, style, not fashion.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“But her favorite birthday memories were at Serendipity,”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“He and Lulu frequented the Half Note on Hudson Street and Birdland, where they listened to Miles and Coltrane and Lambert, Hendricks and Ross.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“Later, on the great lawn at Tanglewood, under the Big Dipper, listening to the unbearable sadness of Mahler’s Fourth, they eventually drifted back into each other’s arms, and the crisis faded.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“she also knew the best sturgeon came from the West Side at Barney Greengrass.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“She knew all the best doctors and Swedish cleaning ladies and where to buy the finest brownies. It was either Greenberg’s or William Pohl, “depending on what your chocolate craving is signaling.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“He and his wife moved to England. He had always wanted to live in the Cotswolds and be a country squire.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“Tantrum time, rage, anxiety, depression, genetics, Miltown.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“So what character in fiction do you most identify with?” she pressed him. Finally, he said, “Gregor Samsa.” “My god, you kill me.” She laughed.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“She said they should view the marriage as a learning experience and, rather than have any regrets, they should focus instead on the alimony”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“Chester was the most revered male in the extended family because he enunciated like Abba Eban.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“What if I’ve been wrong all these years? he thought. What if the infinite universe does not have a personal grudge against me?”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“Oh, my play. It’s about risk, taking chances. It’s about a Jewish woman forced to make existential choices.” “What’s it called?” “Thus Spoke Sarah Shuster.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“I love getting soaked by the rain water,” she said. “It’s so clean and cool. Or do I sound like one of those schmucks?”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“There were record albums: classical, jazz, popular, the Caedmon Poets.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“Pessimism is only realism under a different name,” he said. “Sad, isn’t it? That we need our false hopes to live.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“Hey—is your play also so pessimistic?” “O’Neill is my strongest influence.” “He got his vision from Nietzsche,” she said.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“I’m not cynical, or am I?” she said. “I think I still have most of my illusions.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“When she grew up, no drinking her orange juice or chocolate milk out of glasses that were once Yahrzeit candles.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“Suddenly, he heard a horrible sound and realized it was his own voice.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“When it came to beautiful women, he had always seen himself as the plaintiff, a seller wandering ineptly through a buyer’s market.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“while Sachs was also a liberal, he did not enjoy accompanying her to hear folk singing.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“By now I had taken to sauteing my Xanax for culinary variety”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“Only Hollywood studio head Harvey Nagila. Nagila was a quadrillionaire from his Oscar-winning film, Naked Coed Zombies from Pluto.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

“My GPS, accurate as a racetrack tout, steered me off course, and instead of heading toward Bucks County, I was approaching Niagara Falls.”
― Woody Allen, Zero Gravity