"The speed of time is one second per second."
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Steven Wright quotes (page 15 of 27)
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"Why are they called a-part-ments, when they're all stuck together?"
"If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before."
"Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!"
"Whatever happened to preparations A through G?"
"Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'?"
"Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?"
"You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time."
"The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store.""
"Do fish get cramps after eating?"
"Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?"
"I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded.""
"When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction."
"The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year."
"I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same."
"Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour."
"When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?"
"Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?"
"People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them."
"A fool and his money are soon partying."