Subject: Places (Page 14)

The only good thing about playing for Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there.

American baseball player

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.

(1959 – ) American comedian

No other country would use their technology to invent a fat substitute that when you put it on potato chips causes involuntary loose stools.

(1961 – ) comedian, writer, radio & television personality & blogger

I like Mexico; it’s so… Mexican.

(1908 – 1990) American actress

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty, and that’s the law.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish… my dreams were broadcast all over the world.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

England, the heart of a rabbit in the body of a lion.

Stand on two phone books almost anywhere in Iowa and you get a view.

American author

In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.

(1964 – ) American founder, president, CEO & chairman of Amazon

I find it hard to say, because when I was there, it seemed to be shut.

(1924 – 2009) English broadcaster, writer, politician & chef

Some men are all right in their place… if they only knew the right places!

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

A man in a queue is as much the image of a true Briton as a man in a bull-ring is the image of a Spaniard.

(1912 – 1987) Hungarian-born British author

To err is human; to loaf, Parisian.

(1802 – 1885) French writer

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

(1908 – 1965) American broadcast journalist & newscaster

Un-American: Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

My house is on the median strip of a highway; you don't really notice, except I have to leave the driveway doing 60 MPH.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I tried to walk into Target, but I missed.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian