Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Running, Country

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.88, RosettaBooks

• Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Hate, Long

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.23, RosettaBooks

• Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Time, Important

  "Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988)". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1987.

• What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, School, Fire

• I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Lying, Thinking

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.122, Dial Press

• The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Thinking, Cities

• Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Risk, May

• After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, War, Cutting

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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