Cat S Cradle Quotes

#1. No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's ... "
"And?"
"No damn cat, and no damn cradle.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. His fingers made the string figure called a 'cat's cradle.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#3. Mad cow disease is caused by a prion, a weirdly folded protein molecule that triggers weird folding in other molecules, like Kurt Vonnegut's infectious form of water, ice-nine, in his great early novel Cat's Cradle.

David Quammen

#4. The day you give priority to bogus ethics over human reactions, you become a loser. Human reactions are priceless. Rules should never, ever stifle emotions. Tennis is a very human game facing a great danger that it will be strangulated in a cat's cradle of unnecessary or inhumane rules.

Ted Tinling

#5. No damn cat, and no damn cradle.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#6. My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

Guido Van Rossum

#7. I gave him a weak smile. The thing was, I don't like him, or, at least, not much, but he was young and didn't really understand you didn't need to like someone to fuck them.

Marshall Thornton

#8. Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokonists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
But all I could say as a Christian then was, "Life is sure funny sometimes."
"And sometimes it isn't," said Marvin Breed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

Mark Strand

#10. Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. Love is the ultimate style.

Debasish Mridha

#12. It's a small world." ... "When you put it in a cemetery it is.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

Robert Fulghum

#14. How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

Gia Coppola

#17. Why should I bother with made-up games when there are so many real ones going on?

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. The unity in every second of all time and all wandering mankind, all wandering womankind, all wandering children.

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. Sharks to not eat Chinese people because they get hungry thirty minutes later.

R. Alan Woods

#20. And you think things will be better in San Lorenzo?"
"I know damn well they will be. The people down there are poor enough and scared enough and ignorant enough to have some common sense!

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. If our goal is not to "succeed" or avoid failure or mistakes, but to learn something, we will never fail.

Jami Gold

#22. As I say, all all he wanted from the manuscript was the string. That was the way he was. Nobody could predict what he was going to be interested in next. On the day of the bomb it was string. [ ... ] He had no use at all for tricks and games and rules that other people made up.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. It's nice to be nice.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#24. Little Newt snorted. "Religion!"
"Beg your pardon?" Castle said.
"See the cat?" asked Newt. "See the cradle?

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#25. See the cat? See the cradle?

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#26. The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

Sammy Hagar

#27. Want a hot dog, McMahon?

Jesse Ventura

#28. Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.

Henry Ward Beecher

#29. And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

Kurt Vonnegut

#30. And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.

Harry Chapin

#31. Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.

Wang Wei

#32. No damn cat, no damn Cradle.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#33. People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.

Satish Kumar

#34. Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.

Ross Macdonald