Subject: Places

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

(1949 – ) American actor & environmentalist

America is a melting pot, the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top.

American folksinger & activist

My parents were English; we were too poor to be British.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

What this world needs is a damned good plague.

Keegan Fills Schmeichel’s Gap With Seaman

Zoo: A place of refuge where wild animals are protected from people.

In a perfect world, a fair world, Bob Hayes should be forced to carry a small calf on his shoulder when he runs the dashes…Mark Spitz, in all fairness, would swim with a sea anchor…[and] Ella Fitzgerald must sing every note with a mouth full of Tootsie Rolls.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

Home: The place where you can scratch any place you itch.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men… there is a three year waiting list.

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

The only time France wants us (the USA) to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.


My uncle's actually from Brooklyn, New York; … instead of saying, 'What time is it?,' he'll say, 'Get outta here – I'm drunk.'

stand-up comedian, writer & actor

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that [Adolf Hitler] was a German and [Ludwig van Beethoven] an Austrian.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

You might be a redneck if… the biggest city you have ever been to is Wal-Mart.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I liked Amsterdam… I spent $2,000 window shopping.

(1957 – ) American comedian

As we work and sightsee on America’s largest island, we’ll get to view more majestic bears, so now is a good time to draw attention to the political equivalent of the species.

(1964 – ) U.S. governor (Alaska) commentator & author

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.

(1919 – 2010 ) England author

America's attic.

(1915 – 1979) English-born Canadian poet

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist