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
design miracle looks
They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines.
grandchildren looks apologizing
I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'
looks sometimes wonder
Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
looks mud lucky
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
beautiful looks way
There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.
people slaughterhouse-five looks
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
interesting wish looks
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
people insane looks
All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
miracle crowds looks
Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
brain looks stories
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.
soldier looks flamingos
He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
beautiful length looks woman
There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of time.
cannot deal grumpy offended perhaps rather seen terms
I used to be funny, and perhaps I'm not anymore. It may be that I have become rather grumpy because I've seen so many things that have offended me that I cannot deal with in terms of laughter.
fix peace prospects war winners
THE WINNERS ARE AT WAR WITH THE LOSERS, AND THE FIX IS ON. THE PROSPECTS FOR PEACE ARE AWFUL.