Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • You
  • Never
  • Sex

• It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Reason

• With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Peace
  • Play
  • Development

• I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Angst

• When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Home
  • Greatest

• I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!

  

  Vanessa Ferrari
  • Powerful
  • Say
  • Afraid

• I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • City
  • Kind
  • Amazing

• You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Know
  • Chicago
  • Weather

• If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Logical

• I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Price

• Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Fall
  • Proud
  • Awareness

• I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Water

• I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • House
  • Small

• They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • World
  • Live
  • Together

• Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

  

  Alexander the Great

• I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • God

• Even if you don't want to admit it, I think when you're in 10th grade, you're never more sensitive in your life. You're just so vulnerable and so angry, or at least I was.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Life
  • Angry

• I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

  

  Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Latin

• I would have all couples neatly paired in years, the forties with the forties, and the twenties with the twenties. Should the forties, as sometimes happens, not care about other forties, and wish to frequent twenties, in their own interests they should be discouraged, and equally those twenties should be discouraged who, with the inexperience of their age, suppose they could be lastingly happy with forties.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Interests
  • Inexperience
  • Forties

• The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut