Steven Wright Quotes

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Steven Wright

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LightSpaceSpeedYouTurnAnything

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Matthew Simpson

GodFriendsKnowSafeSeeAgain

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

Stuart Scott

DoctorSurpriseYouSaidKindJust

I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.

Simon Conway Morris

LifeIntelligenceIntelligentGoing

The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I've stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process - the characters, the costumes - rather than worrying about the finished product.

Michelle Dockery

JourneyMomentDestinationProcess

Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

Michael Moore

DailyMeetingsWallBoldStreet

Early, I wanted to fight against things: 'Oh, I feel like a background dancer here in the back of the Wyatts.' Man, looking back now, I wish we could still be doing that. I'm on TV every week, plenty of TV. You've got to look at some of the positives of the situation.

Luke Harper

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When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

Joseph Mitchell

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You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

Dixie Carter

GoodMoneyMeLossYouPlay

We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was - I'd already been an astronaut for a decade when the crew of Columbia was killed. And I went through test pilot school. Rick Husband and I were out at Edwards at test pilot school together. He was the commander of Columbia.

Chris Hadfield

TogetherSchoolSpaceHusbandLost

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

Chuck Grassley

PeopleSomeoneOutUpOwnGet

I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle. And I have since now found a New York where if I lived there now, I know where I would want to live.

Allison Tolman

LiveTimeSchoolNew YorkCollege

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

Shaun White

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