Quote

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

Kurt Vonnegut

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Indianapolis
Indiana
Kurt Vonnegut
Jr.
Love
Velvet
Lion
Silken
Veins
Satin
Lions
Jaws
Storm
Hawk
Rock
Hawks
Rocks
Reins
Heart
Claws

More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Image
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
Kurt Vonnegut