Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

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• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Inspiration
  • Summon

• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • You
  • Right Time

• Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I find the business world hard.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Business
  • Find

• We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Help
  • Interesting
  • Bike

• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
  • Heart
  • True
  • Newspaper

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Proud
  • English
  • Feel

• Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Think

• When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Best
  • Speak
  • Celebrity

• I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Strong
  • Me

• Everything I publish is for my readers.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Everything
  • Readers
  • Publish

• In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Tradition
  • View
  • Islam

• I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Same
  • Try
  • Humble

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Running
  • Door
  • Bird

• Opening myself to criticism was a big door to go through. You can be afraid about something your whole life, about being out in public where people know your name but not you, and it can cripple your ability to try new things.

  

  Peggy Rathmann
  • People
  • Life
  • Door

• I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.

  

  Jim Murphy
  • Up
  • Character
  • Action

• Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Long
  • Country
  • She

• We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Government
  • Program
  • Atmosphere

• People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • God
  • Church