Steven Wright
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
What's another word for thesaurus ?
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
We can only learn to love by loving.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
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All you need is love.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Love is not selfish.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Love the giver more than the gift.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Keep the Faith.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
My precious.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Great men are not always wise.
Know thyself.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
You had me at "hello".
You make me want to be a better man.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.