Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
-
I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
-
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
-
It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
-
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
-
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
-
You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
-
I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
-
I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
-
Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
-
Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
-
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
-
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
-
For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
-
We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.
-
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
-
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
-
If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.
-
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
-
In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.
-
I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.
-
Nothing is more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a man or woman who has found the unceasing wellspring of heaven’s life.
-
I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.
-
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
