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Paula Poundstone
American
Comedian
Born:
Dec 29
,
1959
Always
Back
Me
Thankful
Time
You
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The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
Paula Poundstone
Cats
Problem
Face
Exact
See
Look
Moth
Get
Same
The Problem With
Whether
When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.
Paula Poundstone
School
Word
Every
Spell
Our
Out
High
Obama
High School
Voice
Gives
Put
Heads
Until
His
Graduate
Listen
Inauguration
Speeches
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone
Death
Time
Tired
Feeling
Out
Taken
Sin
Sort
Wages
Just
Taxes
By The Time
When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.
Paula Poundstone
Rain
Noise
Party
Bear
Polar
Gore
Calls
Forest
Canada
Us
Should
Hard
Al
Al Gore
Cops
Save
I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.
Paula Poundstone
Funny
Thankful
Three
Somewhere
Savings
Ounce
Put
Bag
I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.
Paula Poundstone
Thankful
Good
Memory
Vision
Because
Going
When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.
Paula Poundstone
Time
Myself
Me
People
Writing
Problem
Down
Way
One Time
Geek
About
Invariably
Something
Write
Dawned
Part
Reminds
Like
Talk
Talking
Because
Felt
Said
Am
Off
Gets
Just
Stop
Just Because
Anything
Happened
Cut
Then
Sat
Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.
Paula Poundstone
Home
Cats
Miserable
Gone
Back
Once
Month
See
Hours
Just
Flew
Florida
Two
I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.
Paula Poundstone
Me
Conversation
Degree
Back
Everyone
Some
Something
Steer
Annoying
Diagnosed
Always
Years
Years Ago
Trait
Where
Happened
Which
Really
Disorder
Number
How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.
Paula Poundstone
Time
You
Else
Back
Step
Come
Know
Because
How
Optimistic
I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.
Paula Poundstone
Life
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Paper
Laughed
Seeing
Entire
Silly
Entire Life
Someone
Stuck
Never
Bottom
Very
Than
Shoe
Toilet
Toilet Paper
Harder
I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.
Paula Poundstone
Life
Work
Care
My Life
Kids
Favorite
Out
Favorite Things
Only
Take
Take Care
Fortunately
Works
Things
Two
I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.
Paula Poundstone
Thankful
Presidential
California
Bid
Box
Off
Taught
Vice
Which
Us
Coast
Sarah
Alaska
Palin
I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.
Paula Poundstone
Home
First
Kids
Out
Come
Because
Am
Get
Anywhere
Flight
I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.
Paula Poundstone
Me
Women
Comedy
Club
Nothing
All Women
One-Night
Invited
Auditions
Comics
Doing
Were
Did
Wanted
Connection
Night
I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies.
Paula Poundstone
Great
You
Say
Some
Proper
Caesar
Like
Know
Also
Although
Making
Salad
Going
Places
Why
There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.
Paula Poundstone
You
Ways
Only
Foods
Them
Really
Many
Prepare
I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.
Paula Poundstone
Jokes
Will
Before
Favorite
Tell
Favorite Part
Crowd
Part
Talking
Again
Night
I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.
Paula Poundstone
Love
World
Somebody
Must
Something
Takes
Performer
Talking
Audience
Always
Off
Just
Land
Luckiest
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