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After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker,
Becomes dear but no one's - not even your own. — Marina Tsvetaeva

I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character. — Garry Kasparov

For what need would I have to say, 'I believe,' if I already knew?

(from The Church is One) — Aleksey Khomiakov

A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity. — Mark Twain

If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression) — Andrew Solomon

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Where does such tenderness come from
And what do I do with it, you, sly,
Adolescent, vagabond singer,
Whose lashes couldn't be longer? — Marina Tsvetaeva

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft. — Alice Hoffman

Any government which fears freedom of speech and expression, should fear the internet more. — Robert Black

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a contradiction in terms — Kurt Vonnegut

[Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma. — Viktor Korchnoi

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit. — Anton Chekhov

Peter the Great imagined himself as a Russian Louis XIV — Jennifer Homans

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

I'm a Russian. Without the Motherland, I'd be nothing. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. — Tobias Wolff

An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue - Russian Proverb — Rachel Van Dyken

I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks. — Alexander Ovechkin

you is akin to playing Russian roulette: both hobbies have a high chance of ending in a fatality." She — A.W. Exley

somehow touching yet repulsive — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian. — Herbie Mann

I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly. — Margarita Levieva

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters. — Timur Bekmambetov

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish. — Nigel Lythgoe

If you'd teach me to swear in russian, i might have a new appreciation for it — Richelle Mead

The system set up by F.I.D.E ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion ... The Russians arranged it that way. — Bobby Fischer

Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American author — George Washington

When the Russian kettlebell meets an American steak, it is a beautiful thing. — Pavel Tsatsouline

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. — George F. Kennan

Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player. — Anthony Jeselnik

not Rom. They're Russian. Slavs, I believe." "But she does fortune-telling. — Neil Gaiman

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. — Alexander Pushkin

Friendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin. — Garry Kasparov

To be Russian was to be pessimistic; to be Soviet was to be optimistic. — Julian Barnes

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian. — Lenny Kravitz

I'm five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov. — Jennifer Niven

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. — Robert Wilson Lynd

She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored. — Natalie Standiford

To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas. — Semen Frank

Always live the adventure. — Christopher J. Holcroft

I've never had this problem, but that damn Russian brought his big ole penis into bed with me and now no other man even measures up! — Toni Aleo

And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue. — Nora Roberts

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. — Nikolai Gogol

The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind. — Merab Mamardashvili

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics. — Alexander Lebedev

Russian women are very friendly with makeup, almost too friendly sometimes. — Natalia Vodianova

Far fewer people know that Slash is also a world-class Russian crouch-down-and-kick-your-legs-out dancer. And — Duff McKagan

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality. — Lindsey Graham

The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious." Back — Aldous Huxley

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint. — Vasily Grossman

Russian medical Professor — Artour Rakhimov

could tell that one of the Russian proverbs he loved was on the way. 'The only place with free cheese is a mousetrap — A.D. Miller

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. — Kevin J. Anderson

When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it. — Robert Ley

I used to read a lot. But my focus has gotten worse. My favorites are Russian authors and dark stories where there's no hope. — Robert Pattinson

There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas. — Roustam Tariko

Condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette. — Peter Kreeft

You're the Baba Yaga?" He gazed at her in disbelief. "But the Baba Yaga is an ugly old crone, and you're, you're... not! — Deborah Blake

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her. — Joe Bastianich

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic. — Ambrose Bierce

We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates. — Jean-Claude Juncker

The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay — Goronwy Rees

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian. — Manfred Von Richthofen

This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger. — Mark Lynas

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone. — Anton Chekhov

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian. — Evan Osnos

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian. — Helen Mirren

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins. — Peter Ustinov

If his Russian was music, his English was murder. — Vladimir Nabokov

Sounds like the rival is a good soldier, Cono said. Like the Russians say, a bad soldier is one who doesn't try to become a general. — Victor Robert Lee

My government is in no sense anti-Russian. — Donald Tusk

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. — Andrei Platonov

The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action. — Til Schweiger

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls. — Emma Watson

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing. — Marina Tsvetaeva

I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community, — Johnny Weir

It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia. — Alisher Usmanov

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. — Karl Liebknecht

Referring to Russian commissars as half-gramophones, half-gangsters. — George Orwell

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say. — Richard M. Nixon

a small town outside of Arizona, Sergei Zukov, a Russian drug czar, questioned a young woman tied to a chair in her own home, — Jackie Collins

But there was also a car - for the GDR an expensive car, a Russian Lada - that — Anna Funder

We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards. — Philip Sington

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing. — Sarah Miller

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind. — Mort Sahl

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. — Karl Liebknecht

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information. — Vladimir Putin

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian. — Maria Sharapova

Something tells me this isn't going to end well for everyone involved. Someone may get turned into a frog yet." And that was the good news. — Deborah Blake

As one veteran Russian pilot dryly told me:We have to be very careful flying in the clouds. Around here they are full of rocks. — Alan Hinkes

Monday night that Russian forces had dramatically escalated the standoff — Anonymous

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his eyes. — Paullina Simons

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls. — M T Anderson

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance. — Kirk Douglas

The Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data. — Andrey Illarionov