My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
STEVEN WRIGHTWhen I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.
More Steven Wright Quotes
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Why isn’t the number 11 pronounced onety one?
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I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
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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 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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Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?
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If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
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I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
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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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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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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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If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
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Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery’s dead?
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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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I’m addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn’t matter.
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