Kurt Vonnegut Timequake Quotes & Sayings

Only when people got back to when the timequake hit did they stop being robots of their pasts. Only when free will kicked in could they stop running obstacle courses of their own construction. — Kurt Vonnegut

I didn't need a timequake to teach me being alive was a crock of shit. i already knew that from my childhood and crucifixes and history books. — Kurt Vonnegut

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do. — Deana Carter

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies. — Kurt Vonnegut

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us. — Mark Twain

we revere our founding fathers precisely because they were loudmouths on the subject of freedom: Give me liberty or give me death! — Susan Cain

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse. — Kurt Vonnegut

If I'm writing ... even a piece of a song ... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line, a year, even five, those are the ones you put in your bag and you take to the studio. You come to realize, the ones that don't make it, they were only meant to live for that moment in your notebook or on the 4-track-and plenty of songs never get any farther than the 4-track. — M. Ward

I left Chicago many years ago to move to California. You can't help but live a healthy lifestyle here if you want to fit in. I find myself eating chicken and salad and chicken and salad and salad and chicken, like a monk. — James Belushi

However heart-stopping his smile and however honest his eyes, however much I think of him as a boy fired to greatness by his own ambition, I cannot trust him. — Philippa Gregory