My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like… — David Zaslav Copy Share Image
The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake… — David Zaslav Copy Share Image
The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life - sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
“... in St. Petersburg, the most abstract and intentional city on the entire globe. (Cities and be intentional or unintentional.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy.… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know,more than… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
We are expanding and improving the infrastructure of our relations. You must have heard about China's plans to participate in building a… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise -… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
[Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe,… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
My favorite places in Moscow are the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art - it has a wonderful collection of Impressionists - the… — Sasha Pivovarova Copy Share Image
I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
Old St Petersburg remains a beautiful stage set but to the Russians it is not what Rome is to the Italians or… — Joseph Wechsberg Copy Share Image
A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Not that I dislike McDonalds, but things must be pretty bad in Moscow if people are willing to wait three hours for… — Mark Patinkin Copy Share Image
The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow,… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought… — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of… — David E. Hoffman Copy Share Image
And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
"Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He… — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
When McDonald's opened up in Moscow - I happened to be there when it opened and wandered in. And the Russians were… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow.… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image