Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Born

• When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • New York
  • Bestseller

• Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • Humble
  • Listen

• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Food

• I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Like
  • Year
  • Saying

• Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reason
  • Personality
  • Understand

• But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Animal

• It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Men
  • Long
  • Nature

• 'Good morning, Pooh Bear', said Eeyore gloomily. 'If it is a good morning', he said. 'Which I doubt', said he.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Doubt

• What is more arrogant than honesty?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Honesty

• After independence most governments were formed by Cong. And the few times BJP came to power, it was a coalition. But this is the first time that we have won purely on our own-with a national agenda based on governance.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Power

• -the unpunished crime is never regretted. We weep over the consequence, not over the fault.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• I believe God has a specific purpose for me – and for every other person to whom he gives the gift of life.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• His obedience is real since he really and truly fulfills his mission, since he runs real risks in order to carry out the beloved’s orders. But, on the other hand, it is imaginary because he submits only to a creature of his mind.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Hand

• Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Rest

• Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

  

  Charlton Heston
  • Done

• Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Community
  • Question
  • Integrity

• Though it's harder to justify the use of a cadaver for practicing nose jobs than it is for practicing coronary bypasses, it is justifiable nonetheless. Cosmetic surgery exists, for better or for worse, and it's important, for the sake of those who undergo it, that the surgeons who do it are able to do it well.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Important

• Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.

  

  Jeff Garlin

• The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.'

  

  Glen Campbell

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  Kurt Vonnegut