Subject: Places (Page 24)

My God, we've had cloning in the South for years… it's called cousins.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.

(1898 – 1991) U.S. senator (Kentucky) & Major League Baseball commissioner

What a town. They boo Willie Mays and cheer Khrushchev.

New York writer

The best research [for playing a drunk] is being a British actor for 20 years.

(1933 – ) English actor

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make that observation to a Canadian.

Canadian physician & professor

I was in Kashmir last weekend… went to visit one of my sweaters.

(1947 — ) American actor, writer, comedian & director

One of those Canadian proverbs.

professional baseball player

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

I am the only Iranian comedian in the world… and that's three more than Germany!

(1965 – ) British-Iranian comedian, actor & writer

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

In Scotland we have a verdict ‘not proven;’ that means ‘not guilty, but don’t do it again.’

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

(1903 – 1966) English writer

In a British hotel, the words “Can I help you sir?” mean roughly: “What the hell do you want?”

(1922 – 1995) English novelist & poet

Fortissimo at last!

(1860 – 1911) Austrian composer

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.


(1934 – 2012) American army general

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

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

President Bush and the Indian prime minister agreed Thursday on a landmark nuclear energy agreement in which the U.S. would share its nuclear know-how and fuel with India. And, in exchange, India would take all our jobs.

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington… Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.

U.S. Senator (1942 – 2015) U.S. senator (Tennessee) & actor

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience

American author