Ruble Quotes & Sayings

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother. — Maxim Gorky

For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight - and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles? — Isaac Babel

Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist. — Jimmy Fallon

When we cut the price for bananas by 1 ruble, we sell 100 tons a day more ... There are people who live within their budget. — Sergey Galitsky

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth. — Anton Chekhov

We live in an era where the global capital markets are the super power in the world, and when they move against you as they've moved against Russia, as we've all seen in the ruble, there's nothing that can stop that. — Roger Altman

The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls. — Salman Rushdie

Then it was just him and the killer in the room. Harrison's eyes were adjusting to the darkness and he could now see a figure lying on the floor. Even so, he couldn't see well enough to identify him, but he didn't need to. He already knew who the killer was. — Trent Ruble