Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I enjoy spending my spare time with my wife, our cat, and our bird.

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.

The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement.

Who are you?' Mo looked at the White Women. Then he looked at Dustfinger's still face. Guess.' The bird ruffled up its golden feathers, and Mo saw that the mark on its breast was blood. You are Death.' Mo felt the word heavy on his tongue. Could any word be heavier?

Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

Everybody looks at their poop.

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.

And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.

The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe.

Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to the day when it all is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.