Subject: Places (Page 8)

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Today, I bought a pastrami sandwich: $13.75; walked back out in the street – genuine Rolex watch: six bucks.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

I was in Kashmir last weekend… went to visit one of my sweaters.

(1947 — ) American actor, writer, comedian & director

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

(1931 – 2001) Canadian author, screenwriter & essayist

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean, but that couldn't happen again; we taught them a lesson in 1918 and they've hardly bothered us since then.

(1928 – ) humorist, singer, songwriter & satirist

Canada is like your attic, you forget that it's up there, but when you go, it's like "Oh man, look at all this great stuff!"

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.

(1942 – ) British travel writer & novelist

The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

(1956 – ) American stand-up comedian

I went to Moscow once; it was so cold at night one guy fell out of bed and broke his pajamas.

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

He (Robert Benchley) and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

I can never forgive God for having created the French.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for a star.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

I'm working on a marketing slogan for Saudi Arabia: What happens in Riyadh stays in Riyadh… with your hands

comedian

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

(1839 – 1919) Irish writer

Boundary: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

You always find something in the last place you look.

Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

I was born in Alabama, I was raised in Georgia; I'm so Southern I'm related to myself.

(1958 – ) American actress & stand-up comedian