Subject: Places (Page 32)

Hollywood is where they write the alibis before they write the story.

(1908 – 1942) American actress

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

(1942 – ) Scottish comedian, musician & actor

If you have s stomach ache, in France you get a suppository, in Germany a health spa, in the United States they cut your stomach open and in Britain they put you on a waiting list.

(1955 – ) English politician

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

This island is mainly made of coal and surrounded by fish; only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

(1922 – 2007) American novelist

Home: A place where man goes to raise a fuss because something went wrong at the office.

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me; I said, “Well, what do you need?”

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The splendor of an editor's speech and the splendor of his newspaper are inversely related to the distance between the city in which he makes his speech and the city in which he publishes his paper.

A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

Police: Bank Robber Had Shopping Addiction

An optimist in Canada is someone who thinks things could be worse.

(1942 – ) Canadian politician

I came from a real tough neighborhood; in the library the sign says “Shut the f**k up!”

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

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

You might be a redneck if… you think the French Riviera is a foreign car.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist