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.
STEVEN WRIGHTThere’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
More Steven Wright Quotes
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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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Is it true that cannibals don’t eat clowns because they taste funny?
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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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If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
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Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
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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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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 had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
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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 put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
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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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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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Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?
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No one is listening until you make a mistake.
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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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