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" The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. "
Steven Wright
Got
Weather
Tired
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" I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I'm not on the road. There's this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don't know anything about me. "
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Life
You
Road
" I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. "
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Anything
Buy
General
" Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?' "
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Childhood
Everything
Wrong
" I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. "
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Car
He
Funeral
" I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. "
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Other
Museums
Museum
" If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer? "
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Going
You
Would
" It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules. "
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West
Like
Internet
" To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life. "
Steven Wright
Just
Life
Me
" I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. "
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Wonderful
Girl
Clothes
" George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk. "
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Bridge
You
Talk
" I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. "
Steven Wright
Hospital
Accident
Just
" I thought I would be a guy on the radio. "
Steven Wright
Guy
Radio
Would
" When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. "
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Body
Death
Die
" If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? "
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Wave
Heat
You
" I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. "
Steven Wright
Now
Gone
Dog
" Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written. "
Steven Wright
Guy
Off
Talk
" I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter. "
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Last Night
Night
Old
" I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me. "
Steven Wright
Watch
Thought
Night
" I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost. "
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Like
Friend
Imagination
" My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about. "
Steven Wright
Remember
Book
Great
" 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. "
Steven Wright
Bible
Twice
Two
" My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going. "
Steven Wright
Me
Time
Mother
" It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. "
Steven Wright
Make A Difference
Always
Difference
" The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is. "
Steven Wright
Impossible
Place
World
" If God dropped acid, would he see people? "
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See
God
Would
" I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business. "
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Business
Laugh
Time
" I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head. "
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Look
Circus
Guy
" Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff. "
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Stuff
Box
Black
" Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh. "
Steven Wright
Become
Laugh
People
" I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. "
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Book
Writing
Numbers