Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Here lies Howard Campbell’s essence,Freed from his body’s noisome nuisance.His body, empty, prowls the earth,Earning what a body’s worth.If his body and his essence remain apart,Burn his body, but spare this, his heart.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Future
  • Change
  • Aim

• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  

  Sallust
  • War
  • Risk
  • Battle

• I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Trust
  • Like
  • Instinct

• Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Now
  • Jazz

• It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Important
  • Home
  • American

• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • You
  • Working

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Good
  • High

• I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.

  

  Omri Katz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • America
  • Control

• I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Forever
  • Appreciate
  • Shopping

• Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Change

• Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • May
  • Words

• I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Film
  • Everything

• If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • She
  • Better
  • Intelligent

• In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Fight

• On the one blind date I went on, I had a backup. If I texted you the code word, you call and say my dogs are sick.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • Sick

• The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Aim
  • Concepts

• I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.

  

  Bruce Johnston
  • Important

• I don't have these crazy deadlines. I don't have this, 'Oh it's got to be out tomorrow.' I don't like working like that.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Crazy

• Here lies Howard Campbell’s essence,Freed from his body’s noisome nuisance.His body, empty, prowls the earth,Earning what a body’s worth.If his body and his essence remain apart,Burn his body, but spare this, his heart.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Lies