Russian Quotes
489 quotes by 386 authors
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I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I read Russian literature a lot.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
— Kate Beckinsale
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
— Kate Adie
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
— Andrea Bocelli
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I…
— Andrea Bocelli
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As I'm sure you may know, I'm planning to become a spaceflight participant and have been recently approved to begin my spaceflight training by the…
— Sarah Brightman
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he…
— Mel Brooks
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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Communists claim that they liberated the Russian people. Yet, when the Great Patriotic War began, these same Russians greeted their foreign invaders with tears,…
— Viktor Suvorov
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The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our…
— George C. Marshall
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I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.
— Alexander Ovechkin
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There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into…
— Winston Churchill
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While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the Sochi Winter Games. In fact,…
— David Mixner
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Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment…
— Wentworth Miller
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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's…
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
— Tom Holt
Who Wrote These Russian Quotes
386 authors contributed a total of 489 Russian Quotes, led by these top contributors: