People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Topics: People Quotes

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is...

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is...

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed

Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with...

Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with...

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I...

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I...

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she...

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she...

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a...

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a...

Dont be reckless with other peoples hearts, and dont put up with people that are...

Dont be reckless with other peoples hearts, and dont put up with people that are...

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from...

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from...

Why should humans in their unsurity decide what species are and are not important to...

Why should humans in their unsurity decide what species are and are not important to...

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't...

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't...

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of...

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of...

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most...

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most...

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Choose only one master - Nature.

Choose only one master - Nature.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions...

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions...

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a...

It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a...

It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women...

It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women...