Quotes About Culture

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches.

I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?

The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.

Chicks named Tammy have a greater chance of actually driving a Mercedes than a chick named Mercedes.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

This is L.A. You wanna learn Spanish? Take the bus.

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.