Subject: Places (Page 41)

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ‘Get the hell off my property.’

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

It's the only place in the world where you walk in and the first thing you do is steal everything before you take your coat off.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show; if you're born in America you get a front row seat.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Every frozen yogurt store feels like you're hanging out inside a Japanese girl's backpack.

American comedian

I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

It's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the D.T.'s begin.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

You couldn't be a racist and live in L.A.; you'd be exhausted.

(1973 – ) American stand-up comedian

I just flew in from New York City, and boy is my middle finger tired.

comedian

For the white people, it would be like if you were going to Vermont.

American stand-up comedian

Hollywood is bounded on the north, south, east and west by agents.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time… most unsolved.

(1925 – 2005) television host

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and ray of sunshine.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

And later on, it’s the Syracuse Orangemen against the Indiana Hoosiers from Hawaii.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

America is one long expectoration.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I'd like to see Paris before I die… Philadelphia will do.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

The world is a dangerous place; only yesterday I went into [a store] and punched someone in the face.

English musician, actor, writer & comedian

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence to never practice either of them.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

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

Let’s be frank, the Italians’ technological contribution to humankind stopped with the pizza oven.

American author