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Stills Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
- The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
- So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives…
- While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
- ... life, by definition, is never still.
- Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care…
- How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
- Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits…
- If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to…
- If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now…
- You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
- Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We…
- There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass…
- I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
- What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.…
- How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit…
- ...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always…
- . . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about…
- I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in…
- I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.
- When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only…
- Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.…
More Stills Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden