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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• Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Poor
  • Because
  • Resources

• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Values

• 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

• I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Love
  • Business
  • Risk

• 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

• I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Work
  • Women
  • Animal

• You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.

  

  Kati Outinen
  • People
  • Art
  • Remember

• Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online.

  

  Om Malik
  • Age
  • Simple
  • Search

• Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.

  

  Bruce Lee

• We're facing headwinds from Europe. Europe doing the right things here to stabilize their situation is important to our small businesses, our workers, the middle class here, and overall economy.

  

  David Plouffe
  • Important
  • Small

• Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Couple

• The simplest of simplest things makes me happy. I love small gestures and nature in life.

  

  Erica Fernandes
  • Nature
  • Gestures
  • Happy Life

• We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Gestures
  • Applause
  • Pulse

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

  

  Kurt Vonnegut