Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright) Quotes

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

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• There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • History
  • Cooperation

• There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • Choose
  • Lots

• No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Travel
  • Clothes
  • Weather

• You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

  

  Sai Baba
  • Water
  • Sun
  • Sky

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Matter

• The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Know
  • Slow

• Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

  

  Florence King
  • Always
  • Nothing
  • Say

• In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Live
  • Done
  • Help

• What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?

  

  Said Nursi
  • World
  • Heart
  • Future

• I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Own

• I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Knowledge
  • Old
  • Films

• I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Me
  • Sexy

• Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

  

  Edmund White
  • Why
  • American
  • America

• I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock

• No process of reform will succeed without national reconciliation. ... National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country’s future, it is necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Country
  • Future

• Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferunt.

  

  Ovid

• A photograph can express silence.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Silence

• Sometimes, people only change what they look like for the acceptance of other people, and that's where you start going wrong.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • People
  • Acceptance

• The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Women
  • Success
  • Equality

• For me, fashion is something that makes you feel alive, that expresses something of you: if you are sad, if you are happy.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Happy
  • Fashion
  • Sad

• Five more times in the succeeding pages of his penciled petition Gideon spoke of the right to counsel. To try a poor man for a felony without giving him a lawyer, he said, was to deprive him of the due process of law.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Giving
  • Law
  • Lawyer

• If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Words
  • Spiritual

• I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

  

  Steven Wright
  • Mirror
  • Luck
  • Lawyer