{"id":44495,"date":"2023-04-23T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T08:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=44495"},"modified":"2023-04-23T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T08:44:09","slug":"the-genius-of-steven-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=44495","title":{"rendered":"The Genius of Steven Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-44496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Steven_Wright-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Wright\" width=\"805\" height=\"1006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Steven_Wright-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Steven_Wright.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; I&#8217;d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.<br \/>\n2 &#8211; Borrow money from pessimists &#8212; they don&#8217;t expect it back.<br \/>\n3 &#8211; Half the people you know are below average.<br \/>\n4 &#8211; 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.<br \/>\n5 &#8211; 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.<br \/>\n6 &#8211; A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.<br \/>\n7 &#8211; A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.<br \/>\n8 &#8211; If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.<br \/>\n9 &#8211; All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.<br \/>\n10 &#8211; The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.<br \/>\n11 &#8211; I almost had a psychic girlfriend&#8230; &#8230;but she left me before we met.<br \/>\n12 &#8211; OK, so what&#8217;s the speed of dark?<br \/>\n13 &#8211; How do you tell when you&#8217;re out of invisible ink?<br \/>\n14 &#8211; If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.<br \/>\n15 &#8211; Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.<br \/>\n16 &#8211; When everything is coming your way, you&#8217;re in the wrong lane.<br \/>\n17 &#8211; Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.<br \/>\n18 &#8211; Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.<br \/>\n19 &#8211; I intend to live forever &#8230; So far, so good.<br \/>\n20 &#8211; If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?<br \/>\n21 &#8211; Eagles may soar, but weasels don&#8217;t get sucked into jet engines.<br \/>\n22 &#8211; What happens if you get scared half to death twice?<br \/>\n23 &#8211; My mechanic told me, &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.&#8221;<br \/>\n24 &#8211; Why do psychics have to ask you for your name<br \/>\n25 &#8211; If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.<br \/>\n26 &#8211; A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.<br \/>\n27 &#8211; Experience is something you don&#8217;t get until just after you need it.<br \/>\n28 &#8211; The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.<br \/>\n29 &#8211; To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.<br \/>\n30 &#8211; The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.<br \/>\n31 &#8211; The sooner you fall behind, the more time you&#8217;ll have to catch up.<br \/>\n32 &#8211; The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.<br \/>\n33 &#8211; Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don&#8217;t have film.<br \/>\n34 &#8211; If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, skydiving is not for you.<br \/>\n35 &#8211; If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 &#8211; I&#8217;d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. 2 &#8211; Borrow money from pessimists &#8212; they don&#8217;t expect it back. 3 &#8211; Half the people you know are below average. 4 &#8211; 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. 5 &#8211; 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. 6 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=44495\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Genius of Steven Wright&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44497,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495\/revisions\/44497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}