Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
If I'd been born in Germany, I suppose I would have been a Nazi, bopping Jews and gypsies and Poles around, leaving boots sticking out of snowbanks, warming myself with my secretly virtuous insides. So it goes.
Quotes to Explore
-
People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
-
I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
-
During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
-
You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
-
I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
-
I get bored easily.
-
I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
-
When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
-
I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
-
I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
-
I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?
-
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
-
Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
-
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
-
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
-
When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
-
If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
-
I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
-
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
-
This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing
-
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.
-
I understand the politics of Washington, D.C. You need to hold firm, you need to work with your colleagues, and you need to throw elbows.
-
When my son is taping for his permanent collection, he sits there and pauses his machine and when he is finished with it, he has a marvelous Clint Eastwood movie and there is no sign of a commercial. It is a brand new movie and he can put three of those on one 6-hour tape.
-
If I'd been born in Germany, I suppose I would have been a Nazi, bopping Jews and gypsies and Poles around, leaving boots sticking out of snowbanks, warming myself with my secretly virtuous insides. So it goes.
