Top 25 Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five Quotes
#1. The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#2. I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they've lived through.
Tarryn Fisher
#3. All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous."
Isaac Mizrahi
#6. The girls screamed. They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful.
Kurt Vonnegut
#7. It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.
Adolf Hitler
#8. The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.
Kurt Vonnegut
#9. I'm not completely against khakis. It's just the level that you have to wear them. The higher you pull them, then more excruciating it is.
George Clooney
#11. Wacko Glenn Beck is a sad answer to the Sarah Palin endorsement that [Ted] Cruz so desperately wanted. Glenn is a failing, crying, lost soul.
Donald Trump
#12. I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
Jerry Garcia
#13. To me, the last mile of the Internet that very few people have successfully really done. And this is like micro local. Things that really impact your life. And noone's leveraging that yet.
Sarah Lacy
#14. Dystopian Cybernetic Environment in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
Ruzbeh Babaee
#15. A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
Barack Obama
#16. The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.
W. H. Auden
#18. Billy Pilgrim: "You guys go on without me. I'll be alright."
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. If everybody would leave him alone for just a little while, he thought, he
wouldn't cause anybody any more trouble. He would turn to steam and float up among
the treetops.
Kurt Vonnegut
#21. You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.
Daniel Johns
#22. Consistency is important in keeping a habit going. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Don't even let the good be the enemy of the just barely okay.
Daria Sockey
#23. How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well.
Phyllis Chesler
#24. Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh.
Kurt Vonnegut
#25. The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
Kurt Vonnegut
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