Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

We don't piss in your ashtrays,So please don't throw cigarettes in our urinals.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• I don't particularly get nervous about anything.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Anything
  • Get
  • Nervous

• I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Light
  • Football

• My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Process

• For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Will

• When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • God
  • Sexy

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Country
  • Listen

• Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Job

• I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Type

• Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Religious

• How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • America

• My best nutrition tip is to eat things you like that are low in calories and fat. Some of my favorites are chicken, rice, assorted veggies, egg white omelets, turkey sandwiches and protein shakes.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Best
  • Fat
  • Egg

• Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Success
  • Matter
  • Discipline

• Come to the sunset tree!The day is past and gone;The woodman’s axe lies free,And the reaper’s work is done.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Work
  • Done
  • Free

• Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, 'turn on and drop out, man' - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe

• Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.

  

  Duke Ellington
  • Famous
  • Fate

• A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Dream
  • Moments
  • Chinese

• I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

  

  Kurt Busiek
  • Life
  • Drama

• I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

  

  Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Man
  • Moon
  • Living

• Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols which I've got, That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?

  

  Slick Rick
  • Everyday
  • Courageous
  • Impress

• We don't piss in your ashtrays,So please don't throw cigarettes in our urinals.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut