Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. "
Steven Wright
Me
Wonder
Just
Related Quotes:
" I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't. "
Steven Wright
Appears
Emotions
Everyone
" Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. "
Steven Wright
Time
You
Distance
" It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?' "
Steven Wright
Doing
Race
Think
" I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them. "
Steven Wright
Like
Want
Them
" I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke. "
Steven Wright
Karaoke
Arrested
" I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. "
Steven Wright
Writing
Autobiography
" I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.' "
Steven Wright
Door
You
Yes
" It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. "
Steven Wright
Make A Difference
Always
Difference
" I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. "
Steven Wright
Car
He
Funeral
" To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life. "
Steven Wright
Just
Life
Me
" I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4. "
Steven Wright
World
Kid
Eyes
" To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is. "
Steven Wright
Know
Audience
Everything
" One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him. "
Steven Wright
Street
Money
One Day
" I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.' "
Steven Wright
Me
Myself
Doing
" I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. "
Steven Wright
Doing
Art
Creative
" I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. "
Steven Wright
Stop
Car
Gone
" I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be. "
Steven Wright
Imagination
Thought
Feeling
" They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic. "
Steven Wright
Help
Traffic
Universe
" I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage. "
Steven Wright
Head
People
Reflection
" So, do you live around here often? "
Steven Wright
You
Around
Here
" I like to reminisce with people I don't know. "
Steven Wright
Know
Reminisce
People
" I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head. "
Steven Wright
Look
Circus
Guy
" It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling. "
Steven Wright
Joke
Interesting
Help
" It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules. "
Steven Wright
West
Like
Internet
" When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' "
Steven Wright
Sleep
You
Mistakes
" If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer? "
Steven Wright
Going
You
Would
" Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. "
Steven Wright
Caught
Year
Line
" If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? "
Steven Wright
Wave
Heat
You
" In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it. "
Steven Wright
Work
Hard Work
Success
" The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me. "
Steven Wright
Me
Other
Day