Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
-
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
-
Politics is the art of the next best.
-
I'm a motivational speaker.
-
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
-
I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
-
I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
-
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
-
I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
-
What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.
-
You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
-
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
-
I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.
-
God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
-
While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.
-
I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed.
-
To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
-
I have never applied for a share in Tehelka.
-
You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.
-
Don't mess with Sergio Marchionne.
-
from CD Now (September 1999) with Jason Gross
-
Colombians don't switch on their TVs to see me, but what I'm wearing.
-
Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
-
Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.
