Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Country
  • Cool
  • Winter

• Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Lies
  • Young

• If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Today
  • Year
  • Memory

• If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Band
  • Beethoven

• God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • God
  • Energy

• The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

  

  Barbara Ann Scott
  • Important
  • Want
  • Skating

• Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Moment
  • My Life

• Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Want
  • You
  • Forever

• Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Small
  • Because
  • Too

• My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Great
  • Sex

• Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Knowledge
  • Problem
  • Lack

• The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Done
  • Career
  • Learning

• My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil. 1957, reacting on a remark of Picasso

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Light
  • Peace
  • Evil

• But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.

  

  Nathan Lane

• Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Reality

• I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must, Scared by some After-reckoning ta'en on trust, Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink, To fill the Cup - when crumbled into Dust!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Trust

• If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

  

  Linus Pauling
  • Good

• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.

  

  Edward Everett
  • Education
  • Army

• Hitchens: 'Let me ask a question to Mr Heston: can he tell me, clockwise, what countries have frontiers and borders with Iraq, starting from Kuwait?'

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Question

• I never 'went Hollywood.' Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn't go the route of Hollywood parties.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Career

• The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • World
  • Experience
  • Political

• Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Children
  • Morning
  • Genius

• You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Teacher
  • Able
  • Including

• There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut