Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Exciting

• The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Change
  • Health

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Mad

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Peace

• But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Link

• I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Dad

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Poetry
  • Modern

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Skills

• It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Character
  • Me
  • Just

• When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Future
  • Science
  • Myself

• To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Best
  • Appreciation
  • Hear

• A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Astronomy

• Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Know
  • Capable
  • Everybody

• Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Faith

• Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Work
  • God
  • Happy

• That requires only one kind of defense policy, a policy summed up in a single word 'first.' I do not mean 'first, if,' I do not mean 'first, but,' I do not mean 'first, when,' but I mean 'First, period.'

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Up
  • Single
  • Period

• Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Faith
  • Sweet
  • Miracle