Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

See the nigger fly the airplane!

Kurt Vonnegut

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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Truth
  • Bible

• It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Want
  • Actor

• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Politics
  • Seeing

• I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Dream

• You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Black
  • Stereotypes

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Important
  • Book
  • Me

• Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Nice

• It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

  

  Adam Grant
  • True
  • Moment
  • Leader

• My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • More
  • Over
  • Atlas

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Color
  • Classic
  • Sweater

• It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Gentleman

• Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • World
  • Age
  • Enlightenment

• I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Guy
  • Brain
  • Imagination

• I love directing. It's where my heart is, and it's the way my mind works.

  

  Melissa Joan Hart
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Way

• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows.

  

  Saburo Sakai
  • Freedom
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

  

  Carrie Snodgress
  • Dream

• See the nigger fly the airplane!

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Fly
  • Airplane