Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Kurt Vonnegut

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Gratitude Teacher Thinking Literature

When you feel strong and you accomplish something physical that you didn't think you were capable of, your heart and mind open up to many possibilities that previously felt out of reach in other areas of your life.

Jillian Michaels

Life Heart Mind Strong Think Reach

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

Jenna Fischer

Marriage Future Time Expectations Go

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

Ann Aguirre

Women Men Two Women Are Distress

Oftentimes we will get to the rink when the sun comes up and leave when the sun is setting, so on a weekend, I really like to spend at least one day outside and not be stuck indoors all day.

Meryl Davis

Day Sun Weekend Will One Day Leave

PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.

Steve Zahn

Day You Meditation Play Playstation

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Tommy Mottola

Music Philosophy Kind Big Rocket

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

Rod Stewart

Good Heart Write Wonderful Imagery

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Luc de Clapiers

People Doing Lazy Always Something

Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour.

Julia Mancuso

Fence You Matter Over Miles Going

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

Jose Saramago

Work I Am Friends Person Same Prize

Growing up poor taught me a lot. It instilled in me the ethics of hard work.

Chieh Huang

Work Hard Work Ethics Me Growing Up

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

Bram Stoker

Great Me Hotel Country Go Golden