Kurt Vonnegut Indianapolis Quotes

#1. Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Samuel Smiles

#2. One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats.

Steven Magee

#4. On one hand, it's nice on the other side. Secrets don't exist. There's nothing to ignore, and no destiny. On the other hand, the same thing is possible in life, if only we'd start paying attention to the right stuff.

A.S. King

#5. There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Cat Stevens

#6. I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian
that's the kind of people for me.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. I love learning. I love history. But there's history in everything. Every building, everybody you talk to. It's not limited to libraries and museums. I think people who spend their lives in school forget that sometimes. -Tak

Becky Chambers

#10. The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Fred Wilson

#11. An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

George Crabbe

#12. People need truth! They need it to be happy, to know what to do, to live!" Rowan

Rosemary Kirstein

#13. I fail remarkably. I write Eye when I mean Tooth. I write Fornicate when I mean Caress. I write Wine when I mean Blood.

Mary MacLane

#14. Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

Aaron Eckhart

#15. Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

Natasha Trethewey

#17. There is no such thing as a secret mind or secret me apart from the Lord.

Kevin Thoman

#18. Indianapolis, Indiana," said Constant, "is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian - " said Constant, "that's the kind of people for me." Salo's

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.