Russian Quotes

“I wish I were a Russian. It's so exciting.”

— J.P. Donleavy

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

The Russian soul is a dark place.

— Anonymous

Russian writers enjoy almost sacred status.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“everyone is a russian communist”

— h

Rep that muthafuckin red rag like a russian.

— Lil Wayne

Russian work songs can make you suffer.

— Daniel Pearl

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

— Delmore Schwartz

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

— Vladimir Putin

Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough

— Kenneth Rogoff

Any government which fears freedom of speech and expression, should fear the internet more.

— Robert Black

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

— Peter Ustinov

The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.

— Lincoln Steffens

Cuz every kiss, every touch boy you got me blushing, you blew mind roll in lika a russian,

— Brick And Lace

I'm half Russian, so I naturally have very dark hair.

— Chloe Fineman

I guess it's the Russian side of me that takes me a long time to get close to people.

— Lana

I tend to latch on to things pretty obsessively for awhile. I listened to Russian pop music exclusively for almost five years.…

— Katya Zamolodchikova

There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.

— Elif Batuman

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

— Anna Akhmatova

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

— Natalia Makarova

I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.

— Joseph Brodsky

“A Spaniard and a Pole worked in the barbershop where we got our hair cut. An Italian shined our shoes. A Croat…

— Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov

“But I held her in my heart, and would stay with her all my days, even if a great many of them…

— Adam Johnson

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman…

— Olga Kurylenko

The language is the hardest thing. My technical Russian is much better than my conversational Russian, and it has to be good…

— Shannon Walker

“None of the places where I grew up and live in my youth exist any longer: Tsarskoe Selo, Sevastopol, Kiev, Slepnyovo, Gungerburg…

— Anna Akhmatova

“LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and…

— Anton Chekhov

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had…

— Anonymous

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman…

— Olga Kurylenko

I've repeatedly seen the anti-Russian card played during domestic political campaigns in the States. I think that it's a very short-sighted approach.…

— Vladimir Putin

When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into…

— Pat Conroy

The way the educational system in Russia works is studying a foreign language is part of the program, so by the time…

— Costa Ronin

Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

“Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs. They…

— Boris Pasternak

“ A Baby Elephant Right now my love for you is a baby elephant Born in Berlin or in Paris, And treading…

— Nikolai Gumilev

“A poet's marriage to his time is a forced marriage. A marriage of which - as of any suffered violence - he…

— Marina Tsvetaeva

“ Швея Уж третий день ни с кем не говорю... А мысли — жадные и злые. Болит спина; куда ни посмотрю —…

— Zinaida Gippius

“Я не знаю, зачем упрекают меня, Что в созданьях моих слишком много огня, Что стремлюсь я навстречу живому лучу И наветам унынья…

— Anonymous

“ Lot's Wife And the just man trailed God's messenger, his huge, light shape devoured the black hill. But uneasiness shadowed is…

— Anna Akhmatova

“Yes. Da ,' I corrected. 'Say it again.' 'What?"' His voice grew husky as he repeated his request. 'Say yes— in Russian…

— Shannon Delany