Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in. — Lee Harvey Oswald Copy Share Image
My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school. — George Gamow Copy Share Image
My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix. — Ian Gomez Copy Share Image
“Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing.” — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
To win the Calder Trophy means a lot. It means a lot. I don't have words. I could tell you in Russian. — Alexander Ovechkin Copy Share Image
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them.… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action,… — Til Schweiger Copy Share Image
I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Learning how to and being expected to know how to fly an international partner vehicle is quite something, especially having to do… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice -… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well,… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems that for nineteenth-century Russian writers, food was what landscape (or maybe class?) was for the English. Or war for… — Anya von Bremzen Copy Share Image
“Okay, I’ve got the hidden microphones with GPS here,” Agent Bounter said. “Let’s get one on you.” “Now, sir?” “The Russians are… — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The Russian cloud over the Trump administration never seems to disappear. — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian. — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Cuz every kiss, every touch boy you got me blushing, you blew mind roll in lika a russian, — Brick And Lace Copy Share Image
I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
