Committed Quote by Armand Hammer

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without…

— David Remnick

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

— Nicholas Lea

When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a…

— Joseph Brodsky

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

— Charles Stross

I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school... everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in…

— Tom Wlaschiha

It's very difficult to write in Russian for someone who has never been schooled in Russian.

— Masha Gessen

I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language…

— Lana Wood

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

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I speak a little bit of Russian.

— Gabe Polsky

The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like…

— Carine Roitfeld

It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it…

— Ksenia Solo