Billion Roubles

Famous quotes containing the words billion and/or roubles:

    “SING a song of ‘sistence
    Pocket full of Eye
    Two billion Turtle-doves
    Mourning in a sty”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “My verse has brought me no roubles to spare:
    no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.”
    —Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)