Kurt Halsey Quotes

#1. You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#2. I asked him once what he believed to be the basic flaw in the character of Germans, and he replied "obedience." When I consider the ghastly orders obeyed by underlings of Columbus, or of Aztec priests supervising human sacrifices, or of senile Chinese bureaucrats wishing to silence unarmed, peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square only three years ago as I write, I have to wonder if obedience isn't the basic flaw in most of humankind. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#3. I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#4. For a fleeting moment, I wondered how he turned out so untamed, so free, coming from such a refined and wealthy setting. #Quote by Alessia Dickson

#5. No one - not a conservative or liberal or whatever - can stand back and 'define' what marriage means. Other people's marriages have nothing to do with mine; whether my neighbors are divorced or gay or widowed will not lead me to change anything about how my wife and I deal with each other or how we raise our children. #Quote by Kurt Eichenwald

#6. the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#7. I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn't have to write at all anymore if I didn't want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don't know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they're through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn't ask to be flowers and I didn't ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five ... I had a shutting-off feeling ... that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK . #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#8. I was surprised and mawkishly heartbroken. I am always moved by that seldom-used treasure, the sweetness with which most girls can sing. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#10. The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#11. James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona. #Quote by Kurt Busch

#12. What are you?' Trout asked the boy scornfully. 'Some kind of gutless wonder?'
This, too, was the title of a book by Trout, The Gutless Wonder. It was about a robot
who had bad breath, who became popular after his halitosis was cured. But what made
the story remarkable, since it was written in 1932, was that it predicted the widespread
use of burning jellied gasoline on human beings.
It was dropped on them from airplanes. Robots did the dropping. They had no
conscience, and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what was happening to
the people on the ground.
Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on,
and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on
people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was
welcomed to the human race. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#13. How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain? #Quote by Jeff Ross

#14. He supposed that they were part of an amazing new phase of World War Two. It was all right with him. Everything was pretty much all right with Billy. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#15. He was sentenced to six months in prison. He died there of pneumonia. So it goes. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#16. I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things. #Quote by Kurt Masur

#17. KERRYANNE: Well, if I'm so spectacular why did my husband leave me for her?"
KURT: (Poor baby.) Because he's a weak *ssh*le, and you were way too much woman for him. #Quote by Jordan Silver

#18. If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam. #Quote by Kurt Angle

#19. In the only love story he ever attempted, "Kiss Me Again," he had written, "There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time." The moral at the end of that story is this: "Men are jerks. Women are psychotic. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#20. The phrase reeked of cannibalism. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#21. Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#22. He wished to seem harmless and shy. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#23. Kago did not know that human beings could be as easily felled by a single idea as by cholera or the bubonic plague. There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth. *** And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#24. I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one. #Quote by Kurt Fuller

#25. A pissant does his best to make you feel like a boob all the time. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#26. We're here on Earth to fart around #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#27. Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#28. Had Kurt Cobain not committed suicide in 1994, would his genius have survived the continuous incisions of a media that was only too proud of its ability to chisel away at his fragile psyche in the years before he decided that he'd had enough off their invasions? And, had Jimi Hendrix not passed way in 1970, would he, too have eventually fallen into decline, first equalled, then eclipsed by the brilliant wave of new guitarists: Robin Trower, Ritchie Blackmore, Mick Ronson, who emerged during the early 1970s? In death, Hendrix led by example: in life he could have been left for the dead. #Quote by Dave Thompson

#29. Everybody should be buried with somebody else, just about anybody else, whenever feasible. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#30. I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously. #Quote by Kurt Cobain

#31. Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking
that they weren't merely visitors. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#32. Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come. #Quote by Halsey

#33. I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it. #Quote by Kurt Fuller

#34. But, to Shepherd, life seemed to be laid out like a golf course, with a series of beginnings, hazards, and ends, and with a definite summing up - for comparison with others scores - after each hole. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut