Steven Wright

108 quotes

"Boy, life takes a long time to live"

Steven Wright

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

Steven Wright

"I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included."

Steven Wright

"When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, `Well, what do you need?'"

Steven Wright

"The other day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven ... I almost went back in time."

Steven Wright

"I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day cause that means it's going to be up all night."

Steven Wright

"I went into a general store, and they wouldn't sell me anything specific."

Steven Wright

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

Steven Wright

"I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."

Steven Wright

"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place."

Steven Wright

"I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day cause that means it's going to be up all night."

Steven Wright

"Saw a sign on a restaurant that said "Breakfast, any time" - so I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance."

Steven Wright

"I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it scattered around the beaches of the world ... Perhaps you've seen it."

Steven Wright

"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it."

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"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."

Steven Wright

"Saw a sign on a restaurant that said Breakfast, any time -- so I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance."

Steven Wright

"If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?"

Steven Wright

"I went into a general store, and they wouldn't sell me anything specific."

Steven Wright

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."

Steven Wright

"A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here."

Steven Wright

"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."

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"Last night, I came home and realized that everything in my apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact duplicate. I told this to my friend - he said, `Do I know you?'"

Steven Wright

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."

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"The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there."

Steven Wright

"One time I went to a museum where all the work in the museum had been done by children. They had all the paintings up on refrigerators."

Steven Wright