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Paula Poundstone

actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter, pundit, author

1959

Paula Poundstone is an American stand-up comedian, author, actress, interviewer, and commentator. Beginning in the late 1980s, she performed a series of one-hour HBO comedy specials. She provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She is the host of the podcast Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, which is the successor to the National Public Radio program Live from the Poundstone Institute. She is a frequent panelist on NPR's weekly news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, and was a recurring guest on the network's A Prairie Home Companion variety program during Garrison Keillor's years as host.

All Quotes by Paula Poundstone

“I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.”
— Paula Poundstone
“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.”
— Paula Poundstone
“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
“It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently sucking my brains out through my ear while trying to untwist the vacuum hose.”
— Paula Poundstone
“I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.”
— Paula Poundstone
“I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.”
— Paula Poundstone
“I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.”
— Paula Poundstone
“I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.”
— Paula Poundstone
“I was one of the first people to almost actually vomit over hearing the use of the phrase "family values" and I pride myself on never having fallen for the idea that Barbara Bush was sweet and grandmotherly. I met Barbara Bush and, as I expected, she was a tank with eyes, not a nice person at all and why should that blow anybody away?”
— Paula Poundstone
“I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.”
— Paula Poundstone
“They're not going to teach science at all. What they do is take the science students down to the lake, tie them in burlap sacks and throw them in. If God thinks they're good science students, they float.”
— Paula Poundstone
“I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess.”
— Paula Poundstone
“I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.”
— Paula Poundstone