Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Fish! Fish! Fish!

Kurt Vonnegut

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• Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Money
  • Future
  • Present

• The great love of my life is music.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Religion
  • More
  • Common Sense

• We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • More
  • Noise

• Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Human
  • Values

• The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Up
  • Future
  • City

• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Spirit
  • Critical

• I come with bad genetics, personally.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Bad
  • Personally
  • Genetics

• My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Understanding

• I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Career
  • Community
  • Doubt

• Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Art
  • Writers
  • Scientists

• Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Art
  • Light
  • Shadow

• The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Soul
  • Black

• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Nature

• One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Suffering

• For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

  

  Sallust
  • Harmony
  • Empires
  • Discord

• I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Good
  • Money
  • Help

• Error is the price we pay for progress.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Progress

• In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring America.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • America
  • Free

• He watched the early light of the new moon glint fretfully on the river, now silver slivers, now darkness, as the night breeze stirred the choked growth on the banks and lifted the tree branches. The watersteps were a deserted invitation, and he envied Hori who must surely even now be reclining on the bottom of his skiff, Antef beside him, their fishing lines tied to the boat whilst they watched the stars and gossiped. His fountain tinkled like music in the darkness, and the monkeys sighed and snuffled in their favourite warm spot under the stone basin, which still held the warmth of the day’s heat.

  

  Pauline Gedge
  • Stars
  • Watched
  • Breeze

• Fish! Fish! Fish!

  

  Kurt Vonnegut