Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Done
  • Perfect

• Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.

  

  Ted Allen
  • You
  • Cookbook
  • Oh

• It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Joy
  • Talk

• Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Without

• With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Experience
  • Fight
  • Boxing

• The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Power
  • Celebrity
  • Brand

• Vibrating strings in 10 dimensions is just a weird fact... An explanation of that weird fact would tell you why there are 10 dimensions in the first place.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Why
  • Weird

• We flow, we descend, we turn . . . and the eternal dreamerMoves among us like light, like evening air . . .

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Light
  • Air

• I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

  

  Danny Pino
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Proud

• They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Family
  • Black

• I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

  

  Jared Diamond

• You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.

  

  Kati Outinen
  • People
  • Art
  • Remember

• Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Progress

• Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Paris

• I have a big family. Even though it's only three kids in our family, it's always aunts and uncles and the whole thing.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Family
  • Kids

• Change is good, but in the middle of it, it can be very sad.

  

  Astrid S
  • Good
  • Sad

• Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Help
  • Efforts

• The worst part of what we heard Donald Trump say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other nations got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Donald Trump
  • Nuclear Weapons

• We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

  

  Christine Keeler

• One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the highest value in the Kosmos-the Universal Self, also known as God, Kami, or Brahma, or by many other names.

  

  Yasuhiko Kimura
  • God
  • Value

• Faith is a gift-but you can ask for it.

  

  Fulton Oursler
  • Faith
  • Gift

• And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut