Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?
Quotes to Explore
-
In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
-
I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
-
'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
-
I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
-
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
-
Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
-
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
-
Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
-
Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
-
You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
-
Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
-
I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
-
'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
-
I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
-
Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
-
The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
-
If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
-
After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
-
I'm married. Who cares about me?
-
We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
-
Observe the reality as it is. As it is, not as you wish it to be. Perhaps your breath is deep. Perhaps your breath is shallow. Perhaps you breathed in through the left nostril. Perhaps you breathed in through the right nostril. It makes no difference.
-
The fruit we wish to pick tomorrow lies hidden in the seed of today. The goals we are to read and the problems we are to solve tomorrow depend upon today's diligence, hope and faith, today's conviction of the almightiness of good.
-
As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
-
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?
