Russian Quotes

489 Russian quotes by 377 unique authors

I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis. — Al-Waleed bin Talal
I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good… — Andre Leon Talley
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets. — Edward Teller
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. — Leon Trotsky
If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons,… — Ted Turner
I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls. — Emma Watson
In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian,… — Johnny Weir
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the… — H.G. Wells
Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the… — Evgeny Morozov
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities. — Boris Pasternak
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father,… — P.G. Wodehouse
The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued… — Salman Rushdie
Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind.… — Julian Barnes
I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom. — Ronald Reagan
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that… — William Butler Yeats
It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those… — Markus Zusak
This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where… — P.G. Wodehouse
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a… — Haruki Murakami
Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive… — Susan Sontag
Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian? — Hendrik Hertzberg
She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow… — Eva Ibbotson
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family… — Sherman Alexie
The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia… — Eoin Colfer
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. — Ambrose Bierce
That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay. — Rachel Caine

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377 authors contributed a total of 489 Russian Quotes, led by these top contributors: