Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.

Nas' storytelling was just fire.

I think overdesigning comes from a lack of editing. The strongest, most compelling, and most useful things in life are irreducible - love, truth, faith, honor.

Sensationalism is entertaining, but substance is what matters.

Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

The internet doesn't have any qualities, technical qualities. It's just fast, reaching out everywhere and so, it can process that and that volume of data flows and so, but it doesn't have any qualities like "good" or "bad" or "ethical" or "non-ethical". It's humans, it's us, not the internet.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad things, too - a tremendous amount. But I don't think that the final justification of religion is the good it does for people. I think the final justification is that it's true, and truth takes priority over consequences. Religion helps us deal with what is most important to the human spirit: values, meaning, purpose, and quality.

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

No one trusts me any more. I spent half the movie Maigret (1988) (TV) arguing with people and I was accused of causing big on-set rows. But what they won't tell you is I fought for Simeneon. I fought for the maintenance of quality. I don't believe in lyin.

A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.