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

• Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

  

  Bob Considine
  • Work
  • May
  • Wish

• Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Technology
  • Serious
  • Able

• Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It’s all about business.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Business
  • Together

• I'm the world number one, so everyone is trying to attack me and trying to speed up.

  

  Chen Long
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• If they want to continue with that path of sanctions, we will not be harmed. They can issue resolutions for 100 years.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Path

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

  

  Kurt Vonnegut