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Ideas Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does…
- Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.
- What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain…
- Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas…
- Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other…
- Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else,…
- I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to…
- We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
- The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no…
- The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and…
- The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea…
- Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
- There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book…
- There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
- I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar…
- It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To…
- Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed…
- It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
- If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited…
- The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs.…
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- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe