I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, ‘The whole time.
STEVEN WRIGHTI couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
More Steven Wright Quotes
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Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.
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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?
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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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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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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Always remember your unique, just like everyone else.
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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually.
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Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
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Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
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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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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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I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.
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If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?
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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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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
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My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon’s appointments.
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Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’
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I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.
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You 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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Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
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Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.
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If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
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On the other hand, you have different fingers.
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If Dracula can’t see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?
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Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery’s dead?
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For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier. I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
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