Svetlana Alliluyeva Quotes

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.

When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

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

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

I lived in Moscow for four years and really, really enjoyed it, and I have a really deep love for the Russian language and Russian culture.

I really wanted to go Russia. I'm really interested in Russian history, so I'd like to go and put a face to what I've read.

I had so much fire in me and so many plans.

To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

Passion + production = performance.

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.

I dream in fire but work in clay.

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest.

I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.

A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.