The magic word for me is pumpernickel. I love pumpernickel. I must have some Russian blood in me because I could just… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
“Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.” — Semen Frank Copy Share Image
[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all… — Dagmar Godowsky Copy Share Image
“Будь я на месте ребят из «NIKE», я бы точно сменил промо слоган для территории России с «Just do it» на «Do something».” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He loved three things in this life: Vespers, white peacocks, And old maps of America, Didn't love children crying, Raspberries with tea,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt… — Mathias Rust Copy Share Image
Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts! — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Nemoj budit odsanjane snove, nek miruje ono čega ne bi. Odveć rano zamoren životom,samo čemer osjećam u sebi.” — Sergej Jesenjin Copy Share Image
Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
“He loved three things alone: White peacocks, evensong, old maps of America. He hated children crying, and raspberry jam with his tea,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
“Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring… — Ralph Boston Copy Share Image
“How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes… — Sophia Myles Copy Share Image
I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish.… — Joe Lhota Copy Share Image
I was used to Essex boys growing up. Russian boys are a lot more gentlemanly and thoughtful. They will express their emotions… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is… — Irina Ratushinskaya Copy Share Image
I am an Irish Catholic person. I've been a man and a woman. I speak Russian, sort of. And then I'm very… — Katya Zamolodchikova Copy Share Image
For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes,… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
I've sung in Russian, I've done an anecdote in Russian and a poem in Russian. My mother can no longer say I'm… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
I did not have any private meetings nor do I recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel. — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate… — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult… — Lana Wood Copy Share Image
I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
You know, I grew up in the East part of Germany so we never had English in school, we had to learn… — Till Lindemann Copy Share Image
Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos. — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
I ain't playin.. IHOP blue Cutlass, 24 inches... IHOP blue buttons, 4-4 in my hand wit a snipe I'm armed Russian, Dro… — Young Dro Copy Share Image
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
There are many other areas. And I am confident that each of them is of interest to both the people of the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“There are many Ukrainians that are okay with Russia taking control of the country, as it used to be a Russian state.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I served as a Russian policy officer in the U.S. Navy and worked to implement our nuclear agreements with the Russian Federation. — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image
Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
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