Bigs Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

The big show is inside my head,

— Kurt Vonnegut

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

— Kurt Vonnegut

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach.…

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. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to…

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Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be…

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In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no…

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Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other…

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The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five…

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It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was,"…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard…

— Kurt Vonnegut

He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous…

— Kurt Vonnegut