Best Moscow Quotes

If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow… I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you’ll have nothing growing back afterward.

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.

[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.

I don’t like Moscow. It’s not my city.

If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend’s house why should I come back at eight o’clock in the morning to my house to be checked?

Turkey’s NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario – open conflict between Russia and Turkey – because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt.

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they’ve got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.

Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.

I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise – it just doesn’t seem to impress Moscow at all.

There’s one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It’s one of those places where you can’t help but trip over history at every turn. It’s a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin’s Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.

I was interviewed by the Moscow Times and they said how’s it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your Teenage Survival Guide? I said slightly terrifying.

I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria.

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he’d never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they’d go back to the Urals and fight. They’d never surrender.

When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!

However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.

Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It’s quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.

If people are rude in Moscow, at least it’s in Russian.

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

To this day I don’t ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another.

The Democrat Party of the 1980s chose the Soviet Union over Ronald Reagan, in Nicaragua, and in Moscow as well. Now, all of a sudden, they don’t like Russia and they don’t like the Soviet Union?

I just don’t think it’s good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I’m very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovichs compositions and Prokofievs were no longer to be played.

Not that I dislike McDonalds, but things must be pretty bad in Moscow if people are willing to wait three hours for large fries.

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia’s sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

If you’ve been to Moscow, it’s a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you’re going to step.

Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner’s grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general’s map.

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.

As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don’t readily advertise themselves unless they’re not living in Moscow, and even then. I’m sure I’ve met some without realizing it.