182 quotes found
“It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone an steel and tunneled rock, slashed savagely with light, and ...”
“Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.”
“Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve”
“A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.”
“When we can't get away for a vacation we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.”
“One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.”
“The trouble with all these other countries is they're all being run by foreigners.”
“My wife loves Europe but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.”
“This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed ill-nourished and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.”
“My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away as long as I'm not enjoying it.”
“On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.”
“There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't for the life of me know what they are.”
“The people of Seattle deny they get much rain while the rest of the country thinks of it as America's bladder.”
“Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.”
“The tanned appearance of many New Englanders is not sunburn - it is rust.”
“I hate Billings Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck - no models. You open a catalog and point.”
“Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.”
“L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.”
“After years of mocking L.A. for its smog the people of Denver are now coughing out of the other side of their mouths.”
“There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.”
