Canyons Quote by Julian Barnes

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their…

— Raymond Pettibon

“Pravda, as you know, means ‘truth,’ and Izvestia means ‘news,’ and I’ve heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and…

— Nelson DeMille

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

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

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous,…

— Ivan Turgenev

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…

— Demetri Martin

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

— Anna Akhmatova

“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

— Joseph Brodsky

“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

“You had two prerequisites.” Regin plopped down on a snowbank. “And I do believe I have Russian ex-mil contacts, and I speak the language-“…

— Kresley Cole

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever…

— Melvyn Douglas