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. Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

Carl Hiaasen

#6. The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

J.C. Ryle

#7. 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

#8. Every day is not perfect.

Brett Favre

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

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
[Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones;
Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]

Martial

#15. As actors, we have a philosophy, which is this: great fun. That has transmitted itself into the dwarf philosophy of life. We're up for a brawl, we're up for a bloody good feed, and if you've got food, well, we share what we've got, and so should you.

John Callen

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

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. Every day I'm the hero in my own personal movie. Some days without realising, I show up in other people's movies. And they almost always cast me as the villain. Anonymous.

Anonymous

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

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#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. 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

#22. It's nice to be nice.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#23. (27) And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is? (28) It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die],

Anonymous

#24. We decide ourselves whether to do right or wrong, whether to be good or evil. For some, it is fear that keeps them within the law, but for others it is a greater sense of good. I do not think any religion can make a person good, or protect a good person from bad happening to him.

Kathleen Givens

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

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#26. I know who you are. Ash's voice shook slightly, which chilled me even more. That Ash, fearless, unshakable Ash, was afraid of this thing filled me with dread.

Julie Kagawa

#27. See the cat? See the cradle?

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#29. 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

#30. Never challenge anyone crazier than you. Crazy trumps skill every damn time.

Charity Parkerson

#31. No damn cat, no damn Cradle.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#32. Leave the pages bloody

D.B. Tarpley