Top 1200 Russian Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

Money is like any other language through which people communicate. People who speak the same language tend to find each other. If you are one whose money speaks of protection and hoarding, you will find yourself involved with others whose money speaks the same language. You will be staring at each other with hooded eyes and closed fists and suspicion will be your common value. If your money speaks of sharing, you will find yourself among people who want their money to speak the language of sharing, and your world will be filled with possibility.

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.

The glib, facile, simplistic, and prefabricated language by which we as consumers are constantly surrounded is a language that flatters us, that urges us to indulge ourselves, to get away from it all, to be unique by opting in, talking back, liking us on Facebook, leaving a review, sharing, retweeting, etc.

Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.

I was really grateful to have a chance to have some really in-depth study about the power of language using a philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago by the name of Paul Ricoeur. I'm really happy to be in Chicago because a lot of what I do is rooted in his approach to language.

I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.

I'm so happy to be a part of Russian MMA history by headlining the first UFC event in Russia.

I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

I'm not a big fan of Russian airlines where you can tell the plane is about 50 years old.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.

Never try to out drink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Finn or at least a Russian.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

Once you identify and learn to speak your spouse’s primary love language, I believe that you will have discovered the key to a long-lasting, loving marriage. Love need not evaporate after the wedding, but in order to keep it alive most of us will have to put forth effort to learn a secondary love language. We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

I love poetry. It's at the heart of everything I do. Poetry transforms what we call language, and uses language as the stuff to become something else. I get spun around by what happens in words. When that occurs, it inspires images that seem so original to me as an artist, even though I'm following what the poem has offered.

Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.

There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.

Friendship language is, 'You look nice tonight.' Desire language is, 'You look hot tonight.'

I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Very few people will roll the dice with their lives. I play Russian roulette.

Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

Refusal to engage with the Russian government is not a viable long-term foreign policy option for the U.K.

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

Sci-Hub arose as a tool to be used in a Russian-speaking online research community.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.

There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.

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

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson said, it can blow the top of your head off. Poetic language is sometimes misunderstood as "abstract" when in reality, it's precise - precisely the language of emotions and the body.

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.

A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.

If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.

We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.

If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus theres a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And thats totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.