Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

All the things you are are going to be sued and sued successfully. And, while the litigants may not be able to get blood from turnips, they can certainly ruin the turnips in the process of trying.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Parent

• People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Done
  • Stop

• I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Up
  • Working Class

• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Happiness

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Men
  • Dream

• I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Band
  • Approach

• I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Writing
  • Past

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Elderly

• I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Family
  • Church

• I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Never
  • Drink
  • Alcohol

• A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Remember

• The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

  

  Charles H. Townes
  • Work
  • Live
  • Science

• As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

  

  Mel Torme

• One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them.

  

  Jean Fritz
  • Important
  • May
  • Kids

• I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience. [Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]

  

  Christoph Martin Wieland
  • May
  • Experience

• Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Failure

• All the things you are are going to be sued and sued successfully. And, while the litigants may not be able to get blood from turnips, they can certainly ruin the turnips in the process of trying.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Trying
  • May