Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I don't know, it's dorky. Just like quotes and stuff. Something I want to see everyday or something I want to be there. I don't know. I can put a hole in the wall if I want. It's mine. It's very simple. It's a very tiny house, but I can do whatever I want to. I can rip up the terrible vinyl floor and recycle it. Just create a good space. A quiet place to be.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

I've always had a love for making things my own.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I can have fun, I can do whatever I want on my skateboard.

I like rice, as long as they let me put my own stuff on it. You can bring me white rice or brown rice; just let me doctor it up.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

I don't feel like I've ever fit into a specific mold ever since I was very young. That's what so cool about YouTube is that you can do whatever you want.

If I don't drive then I am not the same person. Ever since I was a small boy this is my life.

Make your own place. Make your own. The engine that allows you to make your own dynamic, your own universe. Why are you gravitating towards somebody else's universe?

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

Why does everyone want to own me?" Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. "Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone?" "Because you're beautiful," Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. "People always think they can own beautiful things.

I see myself on top, doing what I love to do, and doing it the way I want to do it. No rules, just doing my own thing.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.

In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.