Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • World
  • Good
  • Family

• If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Good
  • Control

• Caffeine is a good thing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Caffeine
  • A Good Thing

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Good
  • Know
  • Player

• You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Giving

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Like

• It's human nature to want to be with other people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Nature
  • Want

• I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

  

  Andreas Katsulas
  • Good

• The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Single

• What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Way
  • Rhythm
  • Chuck Berry

• Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Remember
  • History

• It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Luck