Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages - they haven't ended yet.Kurt Vonnegut
Quotes to Explore
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
J. Maarten Troost -
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
Jack Kevorkian -
I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
D. J. MacHale -
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
Daniel Espinosa -
As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
Mandy Patinkin -
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
Wendy Cope
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
Daniel Barenboim -
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. Perelman -
This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
Vicki Lawrence -
I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
Carlos Pena, Jr. -
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
Kajol -
My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
Tamsin Egerton
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
Ildar Abdrazakov -
If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
Manmohan Singh -
I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
Gary McCord -
It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
Cao Yu -
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
Taylor Swift
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I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.
Tammy Duckworth -
I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.
Kevin Powers -
We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.
Jessie Buckley -
I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of the planet could provide energy for the dark side, according to the movement of the sun.
Antony Gormley -
I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.
Sarah Dessen -
You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages - they haven't ended yet.
Kurt Vonnegut