Humor Quote by Ian Frazier Download Open image ““In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar.”” — Ian Frazier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humor Politics Young people
“God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“While under the tsars the average number of executions was only seventeen, by 1918 the Cheka was killing an average of a thousand people… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they held the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And why was I still here? I felt I was killing time, especially in Russia, which, in spite of all the talk of change… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“They were like adolescents, desperately afraid of surrendering the very attitudes they were trying to kill off.” — Susan J. Navarette Copy Share Image
“It’s like the fates are conspiring to keep me in Moscow. It’s not enough that Russia has winters brutal enough to decimate its enemies’… — Anna Zaires Copy Share Image
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war,… — Thomas S. Power Copy Share Image
“Entire civilizations in history had ceased to exist. How had life in them felt in the last decades and days? Russia and the Russians… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Here was the Russia she'd loved since childhood, the dark, violent, passionate place where the life of the mind and spirit were as real… — Natalie Standiford Copy Share Image
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.” — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“...I haven't guessed where your shirt is from yet Bane, but I don't think it'll matter once it's underwater!' Tristan looked at Bane questioningly.… — S.K. Munt Copy Share Image
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” — Markus Herz Copy Share Image
“Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
“ “Do Southerners laugh at different things than Northerners do? Yes, I say--Northerners.” Roy Blount, Jr., Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
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