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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

Kurt Vonnegut

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

Topics

Funny People Think Done Try Taste

If you're going to do a job, do it right. If you're going to throw a birthday party, make it amazing. If you're going to do anything, do it awesome.

Jimmy John Liautaud

Birthday Job Amazing You Party

My uncle wrestled in the late '80s to early '90s, and I was too young to see his matches. However, he has always supported me in my journey, and I think that without his support, all this would not have been possible. He taught me a lot, and he is the reason that I'm a WWE wrestler.

Jinder Mahal

Journey Support Me Think Early Late

I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

Jessica Williams

Want Kind My Own Write Own Direct

I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.

Jesmyn Ward

Me Write Over University Improve

You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.

Joe Thomas

Life Interesting You True Ring Way

When I got to college, I used to run on top of everything else, because when you gain weight in swimming, you have to do something else, like bike or run, to maintain the weight or take the weight off.

Summer Sanders

Bike College Swimming You Run Top

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

Tom Shales

People Long Television Comfort Go

Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.

Julia Phillips

People Place Hollywood Souls Holes

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

Jordan Knight

Live Time Walk You Know Everyday

What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only way I could approach playing a character like him was to find his human side first and then map that out to see where it took the turn. He was a very complicated man.

Johnny Depp

Character Personality Man Me Find

I'm trying to think how I impressed my wife. We had an on-stage kiss, and I really went for it. Because I liked her. Usually you can get away with it being just technical, but it was a problem when I ended up kissing my wife on the set. I'd say I stopped acting and kissed her on set.

David Walton

Wife Kiss Think Problem You Acting

Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake hands with someone you've never met before and you walk out four hours later and you've got this thing... sharing ideas and everything, it's almost magical, like a miracle.

Chip Esten

Walk Ideas Someone Hands You Loving