Steven Alexander Wright quotes
“24 hours in a day. 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?”
“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
“I went to a store that had a sign that said 'Open 24 Hours' and it was closed... I asked the manager 'Why are you closing? It says you're open 24 hours.' He said 'Not in a row'.”
“When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic.”
“If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?”
“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
“I wish my first word was 'quote', so when I died I could say 'un-quote'.”
“You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs then you lean too far and you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.”
“The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.”
“I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.”
“My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.”
“When I woke up this morning, my girlfriend asked if I had slept well. I said, 'No, I made a few mistakes'.”
“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?”
“Next week I'm gonna have an MRI to find out whether or not I have claustrophobia.”
“I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.”
- From the movie: Natural Born Killers
“- Wayne Gale: Mallory Knox has said that she wants to kill you.
- Dr. Emil Reingold: I never really believe what women tell me.” “Whenever I fill out an application and it says 'In case of an emergency notify...,' I put Doctor. What the hell is my mother gonna do?”
“I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.”
“They say you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. So I got rid of everything to see what I had.”
“I'm living on a one-way dead-end street. I don't know how I ever got there.”
“What's another word for Thesaurus?”
- From the movie: So I Married an Axe Murderer
“I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.”
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