Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Want
  • Band

• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

  Karen Bender
  • People
  • Thought
  • Weird

• The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Civilization
  • Jews
  • Heritage

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

  

  Barney Ross
  • War
  • Rest
  • Surrender

• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Better
  • Soup
  • Roses

• I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Kind

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Daily
  • Start
  • Planning

• Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Love
  • Man

• 'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Fans
  • Twilight
  • Got

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Desire
  • Creative
  • Active

• I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • People
  • Day
  • Everyday

• For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Entrepreneur

• My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Trying
  • Look
  • Golf

• A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Girl
  • Classy

• I know a lovely little flower, a flower for which I pine -I would go gather it, but bars my heavy hours confine;Oh, grief, when free, how easily that little flower was mine !. . .Oh, were I sinking to the grave I often ask in vain,And welcome Death stood by to loose the wasted captive's chain - Ah, name me the Forget-me-not, I'd wake to life again!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Free

• Listen to market strategists, and a word that comes up a lot these days is 'volatility.'

  

  Kelly Evans
  • Up

• Life doesn't always go according to plan, and we don't always act in a way that represents who we are. What matters is that these moments become teaching moments.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Life
  • Moments

• Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Life