Subject: Places (Page 18)

To err is human; to loaf, Parisian.

(1802 – 1885) French writer

Everyone is always someplace else.

Some people say Birmingham looks great in the summer. I reckon it looks better in the rear view mirror.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

There are no good roles for Indians in Hollywood, unless you’re shooting at Jack Bauer or looking for White Castle.

American actor

We humans do not need to leave Earth to get to a hostile, deadly, alien environment; we already have Miami.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

Few things can be less tempting or dangerous than a Greek woman of the age of thirty.

(1789–1844) British traveller & author

In California, if someone crosses the street, we'll stop.

(1963 – ) American actor & stand-up comedian

Louisiana has the best food on the planet if you don't really ask too much about what you're eating.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against. it.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they’ll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

I come from a small town whose population never changed; each time a woman got pregnant, someone left town.

American humorist

He’s the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.

(1563 – 1608) Italian Catholic priest

I can never forgive God for having created the French.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.

(1948 – ) English novelist

Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren't British, and to the British that we aren't Americans that we haven't had time to become Canadians.

Canadian writer & speaker

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

(1937 – ) American actress, writer, political activist, & fitness exponent