No one is listening until you make a mistake.
STEVEN WRIGHTTell 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.
More Steven Wright Quotes
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Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don’t they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?
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I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
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Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery’s dead?
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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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Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
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All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.
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Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard? Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
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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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Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
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There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
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I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, ‘The whole time.
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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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I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
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One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, “Didn’t you see the stop sign?” I said, “Yeah, but I don’t believe everything I read”
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If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
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