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

• 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

• 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 always tell younger actors that if they want to learn the ropes, there's no better place to do it than right here in the U.K.

  

  David Harewood

• My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Different
  • Father

• If I can drive down the road in my car and listen to XM satellite, and when a song gets beamed into my car, it can tell me who wrote the song and what the damn lyrics are, why, when you broadcast a digital signal of a film, can't it speak to your television to set up a list of settings to show the film in the way that it was meant to be shown?

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Up
  • Why
  • Song

• In all honesty, because my name is Cinco and I grew up in Phoenix, I had a lot of exposure to Latin culture and those sorts of things, and that inspired the idea of this villain, El Macho. The name came first and everything else came after that. We loved the idea of this villain. Ken actually has a lot of Latino roots in his family, too.

  

  Cinco Paul
  • Idea
  • Inspired
  • Villain

• A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Great
  • Understanding

• 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