"I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower."

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Source : "Kalashnikov: 'I wish I'd made a lawnmower'" by Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2002.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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“One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.”
“By men's words we know them.”

Source : Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead
“Prayer does two things. It shows the complete sufficiency of God and the complete helplessness of man. It shows that God is not lacking, that He is in need of no thing, that He is infinitely and gloriously wealthy, that He can give to, He can bless and He can answer without the need of help from anyone or anything else. And it also shows that we are in desperate need of that kind of sufficiency.”
“When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.”

Source : Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Svejk”, Everyman's Library
“I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never interfere with the subject. The subject has to fall into place on its own and, if I don't like it, I don't have to print it”
“The universe is a Divine thought that has taken form.”

Source : Alberto Villoldo, Erik Jendresen (1992). “Journey to the Island of the Sun: The Return to the Lost City of Gold”, Harpercollins
“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”
“I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.”

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