Quotes About Tralfamadorians

#1. Most Tralfamadorians had no way of knowing Billy's body and face were not beautiful. They supposed that he was a splendid specimen. This had a pleasant effect on Billy, who began to enjoy his body for the first time

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Lionel Merble was a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. It amuses them that so many Earthlings are offended by the idea of being machines.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other,

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millipedes - with babies' legs on one nds and old people's legs at the other

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#5. Later on in life, the Tralfamadorians would advise Billy to concentrate on the happy moments of his life, and to ignore the unhappy ones - to stare only at pretty things as eternity failed to go by.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. Billy made a noise like a small, rusty hinge. He had just emptied his seminal vesicles into Valencia, had contributed his share of the Green Beret. According to the Tralfamadorians, of course, the Green Beret would have seven parents in all.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Mary Kay Ash

#8. The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

Ann Landers

#10. Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.

Rupert Giles

#11. Sometimes you can pick who buys you, and for how much. That's what power really is.

Lilith Saintcrow

#12. How chocolate turned white and the milk turned brown, and how sometimes you can't unmix things no matter how much you might want to.

Nicola Yoon

#13. If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day

Molly Ivins

#14. The day before something is a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea.

Peter Diamandis

#15. My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

Harri Holkeri

#16. I don't know. We've kissed. It was nice."

"Nice? Nice is getting an extra shot of espresso in a latte. Nice is finding a dollar on the street. Nice is generic.

L.L. Bucknor

#17. I have tried to tell him in a dozen different ways that I am only six inches tall. I've told him I am as tall as his heart, that he could hold all of me in his hand, that I am shorter than I appear. Every time, he's acted as though I'm saying something romantic or poetic.

Jennie Bates Bozic

#18. As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Joe Baca

#19. Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars.

Derek Landy

#20. One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

Abraham Maslow

#21. I'm sure computers are useful, but next to all these warm, beautiful books they seem so cold and clinical.

J.R. Johansson