I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
Woody AllenRead
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
Interpretation
The future is a shared space that we all eagerly anticipate and inhabit.
Woody Allen's quote emphasizes the universal interest in the future, suggesting that it is not just a distant concept, but the very place where all of us will continue to exist and experience life. It reminds us that our lives are inherently tied to what is yet to come, fostering a sense of collective hope and curiosity about our shared destinies.
In practice
In a motivational speech about planning our careers, I might say, 'We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.'
I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. 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.
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
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.
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.
If you don't see God in the next person you meet, look no further.
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.
The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not conceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind.
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
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