Russian Quotes

489 Russian quotes by 377 unique authors

Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian. — Tina Fey
Harpernus Stoyan, if you can't behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you're going to have to… — Lynsay Sands
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day… — John Green
We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts." "Big doubts?" I… — Kenneth Oppel
French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business… — Pearl S. Buck
He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union .… — Anthony Horowitz
There's an old Russian saying that goes some way or another. I don't know it. I don't speak Russian. But sometimes I think about it… — Demetri Martin
Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her… — Richelle Mead
And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee, I will hire… — Christopher Moore
I have a couple of questions," he said. "Do, please, go ahead." "My first one is for Yassen Gregorovich." He turned to the Russian. "Why… — Anthony Horowitz
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping. — Dean Young
Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here.… — George Orwell
The Russian soul is a dark place. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue. — Nora Roberts
This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using… — Maria Semple
What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian. — Charles Bukowski
Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more… — Victor Serge
The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and… — George Orwell
You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic love with a… — Richelle Mead
We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards. — Philip Sington
It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train… — Jim Butcher
I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest… — Maggie Stiefvater
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter… — Mark Twain
What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and… — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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