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Quotes About Culture

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
~ Alexei Sayle
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
~ Erica Jong
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
~ Johnny Carson
The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.
~ Phil Neville
Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.
~ Rita Rudner
There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.
~ H. L. Mencken
My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.
~ Chic Murray
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world
~ Winston Churchill
Our first stop was red square, the heart of Moscow - if Moscow has one.
~ Bob Hope
In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
~ H. L. Mencken
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
~ Bill Cosby
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.
~ William S. Burroughs
No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween!
~ Gary Gulman
Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.
~ Thomas Gold Appleton
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
~ A. A. Gill
Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.
~ Avery Sunshine
I am originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana - mafia.
~ Jim Gaffigan
Stupid National Anthem... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? "Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit."
~ Bill Bailey
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
~ Oscar Wilde
Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.
~ Charles M. Schulz
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
~ Lord Chesterfield
We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.
~ Shawn Wayans
In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.
~ Yakov Smirnoff
I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.
~ Bo Derek