I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, “Got any shoes you’re not using?
STEVEN WRIGHTYou know when you’re sitting on a chair and you lean back so you’re just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.
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When I turned two I was really anxious, because I’d doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I’m six I’ll be ninety.
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Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.
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I’m a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I’ll forget.
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I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.
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Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?
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The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, ‘Where the hell is my roof?
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I wish the first word I ever said was the word “quote”, so right before I die I could say “unquote”.
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I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
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Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
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I got a new dog. He’s a paranoid retriever. He brings back everything because he’s not sure what I threw him.
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You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.
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If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
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When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.
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If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
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The older you get, the more you learn to see what you’ve been taught to see. When you’re a kid, you see what’s there.
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