Quote by David Lodge

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

— David Bezmozgis

Although I don't understand Russian, I like the sound.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color…

— Galina Vishnevskaya

When I was about 15 and doing National Youth Theatre, we had to learn this incredible Georgian folk song called 'Tsintskaro'. I don't even…

— Katy Wix

“Nie mogąc uzyskać satysfakcji od kobiety, postanowił skazać ją i potomstwo bratanka na swą łaskę i niełaskę.”

— Małgorzata Gutowska-Adamczyk

“What I liked was the train ride. It took an hour and that was enough for me to be able to lean backwards against…

— Per Petterson

The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play…

— Constant Lambert

“The Russian special forces soldiers are called Spetsnaz,”

— Joy Ellis

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For…

— Linda Barnes

“Gdyż zawsze i wszędzie są sprawy, rzeczy, zjawiska i istoty, które trzeba rozumieć - i takie, w które wystarczy wierzyć.”

— Dorota Terakowska

I speak a little bit of Russian.

— Gabe Polsky

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

— Anna Akhmatova