Cat's Cradle Kurt Quotes & Sayings

His fingers made the string figure called a 'cat's cradle. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The unity in every second of all time and all wandering mankind, all wandering womankind, all wandering children. — Kurt Vonnegut

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that. — John Mellencamp

We react very quickly in the market. We can make quick changes. — John Ilhan

It's a small world." ... "When you put it in a cemetery it is. — Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are. — Kurt Vonnegut

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut

And you think things will be better in San Lorenzo?"
"I know damn well they will be. The people down there are poor enough and scared enough and ignorant enough to have some common sense! — Kurt Vonnegut

I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with — Kurt Vonnegut

No damn cat, no damn Cradle. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I have graded my separate works from A to D. The grades I hand out to myself do not place me in literary history. I am comparing myself with myself. Thus can I give myself an A-plus for Cat's Cradle, while knowing that there was a writer named William Shakespeare. The report card is chronological, so you can plot my rise and fall on graph paper, if you like:
Player Piano B
The Sirens of Titan A
Mother Night A
Cat's Cradle A-plus
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater A
Slaughterhouse-Five A-plus
Welcome to the Monkey House B-minus
Happy Birthday, Wanda June D
Breakfast of Champions C
Wampeters, Foma & Grandfalloons C
Slapstick D
Jailbird A
Palm Sunday C — Kurt Vonnegut

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. — Kurt Vonnegut

Mad cow disease is caused by a prion, a weirdly folded protein molecule that triggers weird folding in other molecules, like Kurt Vonnegut's infectious form of water, ice-nine, in his great early novel Cat's Cradle. — David Quammen

Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokonists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
But all I could say as a Christian then was, "Life is sure funny sometimes."
"And sometimes it isn't," said Marvin Breed. — Kurt Vonnegut

A pissant is somebody who thinks he's so damn smart, he can never keep his mouth shut. No matter what anybody says, he's got to argue with it. You say you like something, and, by God, he'll tell you why you're wrong to like it. A pissant does his best to make you feel like a boob all the time. No matter what you say, he knows better. — Kurt Vonnegut

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins. — Henry David Thoreau

Dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths — Justin Evans

Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see. — Benjamin Franklin

Hold fast, in your imagination, to all that is lovely and of good report, for the lovely and the good are essential in your life if it is to be worthwhile. Assume it. You do this by imagining that you already are what you want to be - and already have what you want to have. "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." Be still and know that you are that which you desire to be, and you will never have to search for it. In spite of your appearance of freedom of action, you obey, as everything else does, the law of assumption. — Neville Goddard

As I say, all all he wanted from the manuscript was the string. That was the way he was. Nobody could predict what he was going to be interested in next. On the day of the bomb it was string. [ ... ] He had no use at all for tricks and games and rules that other people made up. — Kurt Vonnegut

Little Newt snorted. "Religion!"
"Beg your pardon?" Castle said.
"See the cat?" asked Newt. "See the cradle? — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's ... "
"And?"
"No damn cat, and no damn cradle. — Kurt Vonnegut

Concetta and Domenico Costa, Mariana Pontillo, the Arena family. We live. — Laurie Fabiano

Why should I bother with made-up games when there are so many real ones going on? — Kurt Vonnegut

The basic policy of the present [Japanese] government [said a combined Intelligence Committee report of July 8, 1945] is to fight as long and as desperately as possible in the hope of avoiding complete defeat and of acquiring a better bargaining position in a negotiated peace. Japanese leaders are now playing for time in the hope that Allied war weariness, Allied disunity, or some "miracle" will present an opportunity to arrange a compromise peace. — David McCullough

What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing. — Oprah Winfrey

It's nice to be nice. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they should be attacked. They have never defended anything. Fourteen hundred persons are said to have died while building them. Of these fourteen hundred, about half are said to have been executed in public for substandard zeal. — Kurt Vonnegut

My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age. — Gail Sheehy

See the cat? See the cradle? — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

No damn cat, and no damn cradle. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.