“We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.”
Philip Sington (1962) British writer
Source: The Valley of Unknowing
Dead Glamorous (1996)
“We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.”
Philip Sington (1962) British writer
Source: The Valley of Unknowing
Ian Fleming (1908–1964) English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer
James Bond, in Ch. 15 : Pandora’s Box
Dr. No (1958)
“Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.”
Paul Erdős (1913–1996) Hungarian mathematician and freelancer
As quoted in Comic Sections : The Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit, and Wisdom (1993) by Des MacHale
“Top peeled back like the skin of a potato.”
Lil Wayne (1982) American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman
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Official Mix tapes, Da Drought 3 (2007)
“We are no more alike under the skin than we are on top of it.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 134
Naomi Klein (1970) Canadian author and activist
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
Charles Baudelaire book Les Paradis artificiels
<p>L’homme qui, dès le commencement, a été longtemps baigné dans la molle atmosphère de la femme, dans l’odeur de ses mains, de son sein, de ses genoux, de sa chevelure, de ses vêtements souples et flottants,</p><p>Dulce balneum suavibus<br>Unguentatum odoribus,</p><p>y a contracté une délicatesse d’épiderme et une distinction d’accent, une espèce d’androgynéité, sans lesquelles le génie le plus âpre et le plus viril reste, relativement à la perfection dans l’art, un être incomplet.</p> <br class="br">"Un mangeur d'opium," VII: Chagrins d'enfance http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Paradis_artificiels_-_II#VII_CHAGRINS_D.E2.80.99ENFANCE <br class="br">Les paradis artificiels (1860)
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
Lutetia; or, Paris. From the Augsberg Gazette, 12, VII (1842)