Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.was an American author. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 November 1922
CountryUnited States of America
business weekend management
Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.
business management accomplish
A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.
magic
Science is magic that works.
love inspirational life
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
littles
It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.
sorry loses im-sorry
There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.
responsibility steps turns
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
encouragement giving-up communication
Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.
secret mind unity
That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
nature philosophy sleep
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
inspirational motivational atheist
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
justice vote economic
There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.