Andriy Kobin Quotes & Sayings

Does a pistol murder a man? Or is it the man who pulls the trigger? Can we blame a rabid dog who tears apart a child? Or should we blame the one who kicked and starved and tortured it? — Bec McMaster

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances. — Paul Harris

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite. — Richard M. Weaver

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade. — Edward Teller

I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet. — Bonnie Wright

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer. — Jeffrey Zeldman

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then. — George Eliot

Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration. — Conan O'Brien

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. — George Sanders

Engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling. — Samuel Florman

A singer whose ear is singly directed to the melodic aspects of a Brahms lied or a Verdi aria lacks perception of the musical web from which the melodic line emerges; the composer's intent may remain unrealized. to sing Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, or Strauss lieder without an understanding of underlying harmonic structures is to vocalize on them, not to conceive of them musically and emotionally. — Richard Miller

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners. — Albert Camus

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there. — Richard Thompson