Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

His plan? To pass out weapons to slaves, so they could overthrow their masters. Suicide.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Best
  • Period

• In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Desire
  • Church
  • Better

• Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Me
  • Place
  • Everything

• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Paris

• I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Women
  • Love

• More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Ears

• I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Grandparents
  • Ashamed
  • Slaves

• Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Done
  • Power
  • Know

• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • You
  • Enough
  • Where

• In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Religious

• Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Responsibility
  • Actions
  • Cnn

• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Nice
  • Queen
  • Title

• I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Women
  • Movies

• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Grief

• I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Time

• It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Trying
  • Law

• If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Why
  • Worry
  • Situation

• Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Hate
  • Suicide
  • Bigotry

• The fate of the suicide is horrible in general. He has cut himself off from his body by using mechanical means that affect the body, but cannot touch the real man. He then is projected into the astral world, for he has to live somewhere. There the remorseless law, which acts really for his good, compels him to wait until he can properly die. Naturally he must wait, half dead, the months or years which, in the order of nature, would have rolled over him before body and soul and spirit could rightly separate. He becomes a shade....

  

  William Quan Judge
  • Law
  • Fate
  • Suicide

• I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • World
  • Long
  • Women

• His plan? To pass out weapons to slaves, so they could overthrow their masters. Suicide.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Suicide