Tag: Kurt Vonnegut
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.
Kurt Vonnegut
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This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‘Democracy in America’ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.
Kurt Vonnegut
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
Kurt Vonnegut