“Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina" when asked the three best novels of all time.”
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
“I asked at my local cinema, if they were going to show Anna Karenina, they said no, but they had Anaconda.”
“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it."- Vronksy {Anna Karenina}”
“On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.”
“Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy”