Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
Quotes to Explore
-
We were descended from royalty.
-
I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
-
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
-
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
-
Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
-
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
-
I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
-
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
-
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
-
I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
-
I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
-
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
-
I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
-
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
-
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
-
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
-
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
-
I don't know if I'm a method actor.
-
The fundamental question I believe is, 'Is political Islam in our best interest?' If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?
-
For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.
-
People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.
-
Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
-
The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.
-
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
