Steven Wright quotes page 1

born December 6, 1955, American comedian and author

I was pulled over by a cop for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?"
I said, "Sure, but I don't believe everything I read."
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I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
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I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
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When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to
a man, it's five dollars a minute.
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If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens
if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
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I once built a ship in a bottle. They had to break the bottle to let me out.
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I just got out of hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.
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I was a caesarean birth, but you can't really tell, except that every time I leave the house
I go out the window.
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I stayed up one night playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people
died.
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I took a lie detector test the other day. No I didn't.
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I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Driving hasn't been the same since I installed funhouse rear-view mirrors.
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A friend sent me a postcard with a satellite picture of the entire planet taken from space.
On the back it said, "Wish you were here."
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I used to live in a house that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to cook, you had to
pull off a sweater real quick.
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You can't have everything. I mean where would you put it?
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First time I read the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything.
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Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on televisions all over
the world.
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I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
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I got up one morning and couldn't find my socks, so I called the operator. I said, "I can't find
my socks." She said, "They're behind the couch." And they were.
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How do the men who drive the snowplough get to work in the morning?
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If you shoot a mime, should you use a silencer?
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They say we're 98 per cent water. That means if you drink one glass of water, you're in
grave danger of drowning.
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I went to a museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all
the other museums.
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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.
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I broke a mirror in my house, which is supposed to be seven years of bad luck. My lawyer
thinks he can get me five.
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Don't worry about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
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When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my
car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.
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He's a millionaire. He made all his money designing the little diagrams that tell you which
way to put batteries in.
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I put instant coffee in the microwave and almost went back in time.
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