Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

When the excrement hit the air conditioner (Recurring phrase throughout many chapters)

Kurt Vonnegut

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• I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

  

  Patrick White
  • Trying
  • Faith
  • Air

• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Air
  • Japanese
  • Group

• A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Air
  • End
  • Rose

• There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Control

• I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Air
  • Listen
  • Radio

• I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Air

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Evil
  • Silly
  • Research

• I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Dad
  • Air
  • Feet

• Without electricity, the air would rot.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Air
  • Without
  • Electricity

• I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Think
  • Want
  • Air

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

  

  Ma Jun
  • World
  • Energy
  • Water

• When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Myself

• I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Father
  • Political
  • Air

• You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Future
  • Present

• There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Air
  • Victory

• I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • Pregnancy

• Nobody's wrong but England – and England's always wrong,Too late – or else too early – too soft – or else too strong.And when for once the wide world begins to praise her nameHer own sons crowd and hurry to shout her back to shame.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • World
  • Strong

• I believe that the G20 should not interfere [foreign policy], because there are other platforms for that.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Policy

• When the excrement hit the air conditioner (Recurring phrase throughout many chapters)

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Air