Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said.'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'

Kurt Vonnegut

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Poverty

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Free
  • Freedom

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Done
  • Hear
  • Drummer

• I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Wish

• I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Night
  • Man
  • Wish

• Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Country
  • Free
  • Way

• I wish I could do 50 projects a year.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Wish
  • Year
  • I Wish

• I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Excited

• I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Loved

• All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Good
  • Believe
  • True

• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

  Man Ray
  • Wish
  • Existence
  • Paint

• We all wish we could stay with one franchise and it work out the way it work out but it doesn't necessarily work that way, but you've got to keep balling.

  

  Justin Scott
  • Work
  • Wish

• I remember I had an actor friend - a close friend from college - Anthony Zerbe. He sent me a telegram before I started my first movie, 'Cisco Pike.' It said, 'Have a good time. Ignore the camera.' That was the extent of my training.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Remember

• Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Guy
  • Mountain

• Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Mood

• Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer. We can just step off the sidewalk. And sometimes we can get impressionable members of the opposite sex to perform sacramental rites with us. 'Every drop of water wasted is a drop less of a wild and scenic river, Jennifer. We'd better double up in the shower.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Earth

• 'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said.'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Wish
  • Bird