Russian Quotes

489 Russian quotes by 377 unique authors

I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that… — David Benioff
The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to… — Orson Scott Card
As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has a fiery heart… — Christopher Moore
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to… — Margaret Mead
Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day. — Dorothy Parker
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and… — Toni Morrison
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or… — Daniel Handler
They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter… — Anthony Bourdain
None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was being held in the grip of a… — Richelle Mead
The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they… — Sophie Scholl
When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit. And nearly choked to death. It was like fire… — Richelle Mead
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her… — Jim Butcher
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
Stick." I said in Russian. I had no clue what the word for stake was. I pointed at the silver ring I wore and made… — Richelle Mead
And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of… — Andre Agassi
There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now… — Alain Robbe-Grillet
A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t. ‘I have been… — Jostein Gaarder
The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me… — Richelle Mead
if you'd teach me to swear in russian, i might have a new appreciation for it — Richelle Mead
This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of… — Paula McLain

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