Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
'The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody,' she said, 'would be to not be used for anything by anybody.' ... 'Thank you for using me,' she said to Constant, 'even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.'

Quotes to Explore
-
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
-
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
-
For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
-
I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
-
Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
-
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
-
If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
-
I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
-
Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
-
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
-
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
-
At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
-
I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
-
'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
-
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
-
I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
-
For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure.
-
Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
-
I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
-
We score with the best of them. If we concentrate on defense like we do on offense, then we'll win a lot more ballgames.
-
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
-
My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.
-
She's not even referred to until her husband's death in 1903. And even then it's only as 'Mrs. William Dewey.
-
'The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody,' she said, 'would be to not be used for anything by anybody.' ... 'Thank you for using me,' she said to Constant, 'even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.'