Quotes by Russian/Russia authors (page 22)

"The memory is like a cat scratching my heart"

"Justice is like a train that is nearly always late"

"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers"

"I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism"

Vladimir Putin, President

"Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal values have deep historic roots"

Vladimir Putin, President

"We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them"

Vladimir Putin, President

"The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history"

Vladimir Putin, President

"Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism"

Vladimir Putin, President

"Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy"

Vladimir Putin, President

"Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms"

Vladimir Putin, President

"History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior"

Vladimir Putin, President

"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

"He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

"Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"When I speak it is in order to be heard"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school"

Mary Antin, Activist

"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful"

Mary Antin, Activist

"If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them"

Mary Antin, Activist

"I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

"Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles"

Mary Antin, Activist

"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them"

Mary Antin, Activist

"In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths"

Mary Antin, Activist

"I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final"

Vladimir Putin, President

"No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights"

Vladimir Putin, President

"Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

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Quotes by Russian authors