182 quotes found
“In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”
“Good Americans when they die go to Paris.”
“My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.”
“London: A place you go to get bronchitis.”
“Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London.”
“Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of life.”
“I once saw a pin on a Delta Airlines employee and I asked him what the letters in Delta stand for. He said "Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive."”
“When people ask me if I have any spare change I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.”
“When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.”
“I love the polite drivers in La Jolla. At an intersection . . . most expensive car goes first.”
“We had a very successful trip to Russia we got back.”
“There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.”
“I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't. So I grew hair under my arms instead.”
“Chicago was started by a bunch of New Yorkers who said "Gee I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty but it just isn't cold enough."”
“In the streets of Cecilia, an illustrious city, I met once a goatherd, driving a tinkling flock along the walls."Man blessed by heaven," he asked me, stopping, "can you tell me the name of the city...”
“Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stationsWe crossed cities that turn-tabled all dayAnd vomited at night the sunshine of the day ("The Voyager")”
“Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.”
“Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens with slanted display cabinets full of trays that hold soft wet lumpy matter in pal...”
“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.”
“Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is ...”
