Quote

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

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.
Dumb
Gave
Numbers
Trying
Long
Numerals
Think
Arabs
Thinking
Roman
Division

More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Image
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.
Kurt Vonnegut