#russians

Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#russians #humor

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#between #british #british actors #choose #decide

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#end #occupied #russians #second #second world war

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

— Tom Clancy

#edge #over #probably #pushed #realized

Where were they when the Russians went down? ↗

— Stacy Keach

#russians #went #were #where

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ↗

— James Thurber

#between #brutal #decadence #difference #our

My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.' ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#been #boyfriend #coming #dawn #did

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. ↗

— Anton Rubinstein

#christian #christians #german #germans #jew

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#british #countries #created #event #jewish

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. ↗

— George Wald

#competition #mistake #russians #species #thought