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

• It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • World
  • America
  • Team

• 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

• It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Age
  • Political
  • Moral

• People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Believe
  • Storyteller

• So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to entertain them. That is just way down on my priority list, if on my list at all. I'm into breaking records. If I can do a set and break a record and get no laughs, I'm happy.

  

  Matt Besser
  • People
  • Happy
  • Priority

• I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

  

  Evan Peters
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Reader

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

  

  Kurt Vonnegut