Andrey Kurkov Quotes

#1. In one of my novels I described a secret factory, hidden away in the Ural Mountains, which produced artificial meteorites. The dream of the Soviet military's high command: bombarding the United States with artificial meteorites, while making people believe they were real ones.

Andrey Kurkov

#2. It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?

Ford Madox Ford

#3. I will have to pay more attention to Russian weather forecasts in future, to check that Kiev, Warsaw, Riga and Vilnius are not included in their maps.

Andrey Kurkov

#4. Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

Evo Morales

#5. Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

Ovid

#6. Inna Bohoslovska is scaring everyone by repeating that Putin wants war.

Andrey Kurkov

#7. On 4 March, Yuriy Kravchenko was found dead in his dacha. Official verdict: suicide. In spite of the fact that Kravchenko was killed by two bullets in his head.

Andrey Kurkov

#8. Only in Italy are elections as carnivalesque as they are here. Except, in Ukraine, the carnival is always anarchistic, and more or less uncontrollable.

Andrey Kurkov

#9. Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

David Crystal

#10. I do not want to believe everything I read in the press. The papers, particularly the online editions, publish a lot of false news.

Andrey Kurkov

#11. Even reading the news feed on the Internet, you can sense which information is credible among all the thousands of propagandist lies.

Andrey Kurkov

#12. Life was a road, and if departed from at a tangent, the longer for it. And a long road was a long life - a case where to travel was better than to arrive, the point of arrival being, after all, always the same: death.

Andrey Kurkov

#13. Yesterday, Parliament announced an open forum day. Everyone was given the chance to speak. Or, in other words, no one listened.

Andrey Kurkov

#14. The past believed in dates. And everyone's life consisted of dates, giving life a rhythm and sense of gradation, as if from the eminence of a date one could look back and down, and see the past itself. A clear, comprehensible past, divided up into squares of events, lines of paths taken.

Andrey Kurkov

#15. Then when I cut my hair short, my career tanked for about four years!

Sheryl Crow

#16. In the end, he said he judged the Bible to be a sound book. Nevertheless, he wondered why the white people were not better than they are, having had it for so long. He promised that just as soon as white people achieved Christianity, he would recommend it to his own folks.

Charles Frazier

#17. Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

Matt LeBlanc

#18. When millions of people stand up and fight ... they win.

Bernie Sanders

#19. Bridges are happy, because they do not judge those who come to them.

Mehmet Murat Ildan