Quotes of: Russian Keyword

Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.

Charles Horner

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

Yakov Smirnoff

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

Klaus Fuchs

Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette. That is not jus...

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

I often think about this, that is, I imagine to myself that here is Vera, dead, totally motionless, lying on the table, in a coffin... and I too, of course can no longer live. But for some reason this gives me pleasure, a terrible amount of pleasure ...

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain — the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed — then its love...

Lectures on Russian Literature

Alex: [voice over] This is my miniature brother, Igor. I am tutoring him to be a man of this world. For an example, I exhibited him a smutty magazine three days yore. Igor: [in Russian] Why is it dubbed sixty-nine? Alex: [voice over] I explain it to ...

Everything Is Illuminated

Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing.

Starshine

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Joseph Conrad

Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.

Roald Hoffmann

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.

Tom Clancy

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Leon Trotsky

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

Milos Forman

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.

Maria Alyokhina

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

Lincoln Steffens

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

Anwar Sadat

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Tom Holt

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

Caroline Rhea

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

Hjalmar Schacht

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

Bayard Taylor

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.

Gerry Mulligan