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Instruments are easier to break than to fix.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

I was performing since I was a kid. I think it comes down to something physical. It's the use of your entire instrument as opposed to just playing an instrument.

Quote by Armand Assante about use

Any instrument can be used as a hammer, the more delicate or expensive the instrument, the better hammer it becomes.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

Quote by Charles Babbage about economy, use

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about man, people

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Quote by Dean Acheson about nation

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, reality, revelation, thinking, spirit, love

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Quote by John Adams about society, word

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Quote by John Adams about destiny, nation, atheism, blind, essential, faith, man

I'd have tears running from my eyes listening to the power of these operatic pieces, and the voices that committed themselves to being an instrument for the composers who created them.

Quote by Michael Bolton about tears, eyes, power, being

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

Quote by Michael Bolton about real estate, nothing, things

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about peace, love

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about being, actors

In parallel, we developed the theoretical background for the experiments we had in mind as well as for the optimum performance of the instruments.

Quote by Richard Ernst about mind

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about ideology, evolution, spring, use, life

Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology

Any instrument, when dropped, will always come to rest in the least accessible place possible.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine, rest

The rate of instrument failure/breakdown is inversely proportional to the ease of finding a repairman.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about failure

he location of all auxiliary percussion instruments cannot be known simultaneously.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

An instrument always breaks at the worst possible time.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about time