Subject: Places (Page 27)

I bought these shoes in Taiwan, and they said in the inside “Made around the corner.”

(1926 – 2012) Irish comedian & actor

There’s no place like home… that’s why I never went back.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

It was tough growing up in Florida because all my friends were retired.

(1959 – ) American comedian, comedy writer, actor & author

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

(1922 – 2007) American novelist

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate; all the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

(1957 – ) American actor, comedian, writer & director

Suburbia: Where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.

Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Order is an exotic in Ireland; it has been imported from England but it will not grow. It suits neither soil nor climate.

(1818 – 1894) English historian, novelist, biographer & editor

I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.

(1942 – ) Scottish comedian, musician & actor

My dad fought in World War II, and he never talks about it, of course – ’cause he’s Japanese.

comedian

Florida: God's waiting room.

I came from a real tough neighborhood; I bought a waterbed and found a guy at the bottom of it.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Washington is a much better place if you are asking questions rather than answering them.

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is; that is what makes America what it is.

(1874 – 1946) American art collector and writer of novels, poetry & plays

According to legend, Telford is so dull that the bypass was built before the town.

New Jersey is to America as America is to the world.

(1977 – ) American television producer, writer & comedian

Of course… once.

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

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

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist