Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Vietnam only made billionaires out of millionaires. Iraq is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parents

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Man
  • Achieved

• Love is the one wild card.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Know
  • Outspoken
  • Profane

• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shakespeare

• I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Music
  • Friends
  • English

• I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Children
  • American

• My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Like
  • Feel

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • Real
  • Business

• When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Like
  • First

• The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Best
  • Advice

• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Know

• If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

  

  Kate Adie
  • Danger
  • Fault
  • Adrenalin

• While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Real
  • Change

• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • House
  • You

• My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Like
  • Painting
  • Hobbies

• The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Moments

• Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

  

  Van Jones
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.

  

  Elizabeth Enright
  • Free
  • Childhood
  • Strange

• This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Time
  • Law
  • Moving

• Vietnam only made billionaires out of millionaires. Iraq is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Progress