Top 22 Stephen Wright Quotes
#1. I am writing a book. I have got the page numbers done.
Stephen Wright
#2. The subterranean lair of the wily human relationship: a dark maze of pop-up demons, fun house mirrors, spooky dead ends, multiple false bottoms.
Stephen Wright
#3. At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.
Tahar Rahim
#5. Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
Eric Mazur
#6. The question is, 'how bad at sports were you as a kid?' I grew up near where they film Jersey Shore. If you weren't tan, muscular, and book-averse, you were a dork and a nerd and a geek and stuff. I remember being into Gary Larsen, Stephen Wright, Peter Sellers ...
Demetri Martin
#7. It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.
Ursula Andress
#8. She felt an unexpected pang of homesickness (or was it some physical complaint?) and suddenly remembered that it was her mother's birthday today or tomorrow or sometime last week.
Stephen Wright
#9. We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.
Nicholas Stern
#10. He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject
what a burden his life was.
Philip Pullman
#11. Families were bunk, temporary and uneasy alliances of strangers who would hate each other less without the coercion of blood, the spiraling bonds of genetic ivy holding its victims fast to a blasted tree.
Stephen Wright
#12. A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, How to Build a Boat.
Stephen Wright
#13. I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
Anthony Jeselnik
#14. What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#15. The boys had always been her reason to stay, but now for the first time they were her reason to leave. She'd allowed violence to become a normal part of their life.
Liane Moriarty
#16. I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage to do it again. You get to a point where you feel that you have something that is your own. And if you don't find an audience for it, you are going to burst.
Robert Adams
#17. I saw a close friend of mine the other day ... He said, "Stephen, why haven't you called me?" I said, "I can't call everyone I want. My new phone has no five on it." He said, "How long have you had it?" I said, "I don't know ... my calendar has no sevens on it."
Steven Wright
#18. If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
Bill Gates
#19. If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
Stephen Wright
#20. Outside the windows, the land was as flat, as interesting, as the head of an anvil, and the shadows of the corn advanced like the rifle barrels of an approaching army.
Stephen Wright
#22. Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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